According to a telegram just received, Alice Manisty was not expected till after lunch.
* * * * * Meanwhile Manisty was talking of his sister to Lucy, With coolness, and as much frankness as he thought necessary.
'She is very odd--and very depressing.

She is now very little with us.
There is no company she likes as well as her own.

But in early days, she and I were great friends.

We were brought up in an old Yorkshire house together, and a queer pair we were.

I was never sent to school, and I got the better of most of my tutors.