Ughtred is more like his father than his mother." She spoke to her husband later, of what Betty had said.
"What do you think she has in her mind, Reuben ?" she asked.
"What Betty has in her mind is usually good sense," was his response.
"She will begin to talk to me about it presently.

I shall not ask questions yet.

She is probably thinking: things over." She was, in truth, thinking things over, as she had been doing for some time.

She had asked questions on several occasions of English people she had met abroad.

But a schoolgirl cannot ask many questions, and though she had once met someone who knew Sir Nigel Anstruthers, it was a person who did not know him well, for the reason that she had not desired to increase her slight acquaintance.