Wasn't it as Miss Smith that Miss de Barral had been introduced to me?
Mrs.Fyne, staring fixedly but also colouring deeper under her tan, told me that the children had never liked Flora very much.

She hadn't the high spirits which endear grown-ups to healthy children, Mrs.Fyne explained unflinchingly.

Flora had been staying at the cottage several times before.

Mrs.Fyne assured me that she often found it very difficult to have her in the house.
"But what else could we do ?" she exclaimed.
That little cry of distress quite genuine in its inexpressiveness, altered my feeling towards Mrs.Fyne.

It would have been so easy to have done nothing and to have thought no more about it.