Mr.Sheridan has been so engrossed in business ever since he was a mere boy, why, of course--" She paused, with the air of having completed an explanation.
"Of course," said Mary, sympathetically accepting it.
"Yes.

I've been seeing quite a lot of the Kittersbys since that afternoon," Sibyl went on.

"They're really delightful people.

Indeed they are! Yes--" She stopped with unconscious abruptness, her mind plainly wandering to another matter; and Mary perceived that she had come upon a definite errand.

Moreover, a tensing of Sibyl's eyelids, in that moment of abstraction as she looked aside from her hostess, indicated that the errand was a serious one for the caller and easily to be connected with the slight but perceptible agitation underlying her assumption of cheerful ease.