Mrs.Claridge's scheme for week-end cottages had been enormously successful and had put much money not only into the coffers of _Fraser and Warren_ but into the banking account of that clever architect, Francis Brimley Storrington.
[I find I made an absurd mistake earlier in this book in charging the too amorous architect with a home at "Storrington." His home really was in a midland garden city which he had designed, but his name--a not uncommon one--was Storrington.] In the autumn of 1902, poor Lady Fraser died.

In January, 1903, Honoria married the impatient Colonel Armstrong.

In January, 1904, she had her first baby--a boy.
At the close of 1904 Beryl Claridge made proposals to Honoria Fraser relative to a change in the constitution of _Fraser and Warren_.
Honoria was to have an interest still as a sleeping partner in the concern and some voice in its management and policy.

But she was to take no active share of the office work and "Warren" was to pass out of it altogether.

Beryl pointed out it was rather a farce when the middle partner--she herself had been made the junior partner a year before--was perpetually and mysteriously absent, year after year, engaged seemingly on work of her own abroad.