While waiting for him to speak she had time to tell herself that this would prove that her husband and Betty, the eldest of her three step-daughters, had been wrong in thinking that Godfrey Radmore knew that George, Betty's twin, had been killed in the autumn of 1916.

At that time all correspondence between Radmore and Old Place had ceased for a long time.

When it had begun again in 1917, in the form of a chaffing letter and a cheque for five pounds to the writer's godson, Betty had suggested that nothing should be said of George's death in Timmy's answer.

Of course Betty's wish had been respected, the more so that Janet herself felt sure that Godfrey did not know.

Why, he and George--dear, sunny-natured George--had been like fond brothers in the long ago, before Godfrey's unfortunate love-affair with Betty.
And so it was that when she heard his next words they took her entirely by surprise, for it was such an unimportant, as well as unexpected, question that the unseen speaker asked.
"Has Mrs.Crofton settled down at The Trellis House yet ?" "She's arriving to-day, I believe.