She seemed to have been spending the last quarter of an hour in thought.
"I am rather relieved to hear," she confessed, "that those two young people are a heritage from the other Mr.Romilly.No, don't sit down," she went on.

"I want you to do something for me.

Go into the library, and on the left-hand side as you enter you will see all the wireless news.
Read the bottom item and then come back to me." He turned slowly away.

All his new-found buoyancy of spirits had suddenly left him.

He cursed the imagination which lifted his feet from the white decks and dragged his eyes from the sparkling blue sea to the rain-soaked, smut-blackened fields riven by that long thread of bleak, turgid water.