The girls greeted Brooks with a great show of pleasure, but they looked doubtfully at Mary.
"Did you meet at the front door ?" Selina asked.

"I thought I heard voices." Brooks was a little surprised.
"Your cousin brought her class of factory girls to my lecture to-night at the Secular Hall." Selina's eyes narrowed a little, and she was silent for a moment.

Then she turned to her cousin.
"You might have told us, Mary," she exclaimed, reproachfully.

"We should so much have liked to come, shouldn't we, Louise ?" "Of course we should," Louise answered, snappishly.

"I can't think why Mary should go off without saying a word." Mary looked at them both and laughed.