By the way, Nanna hasn't changed, and"-- he hesitated, then brought out with an effort, "Mr.Tosswill is exactly the same." She felt vexed that he hadn't included Betty.

To her step-mother's fond eyes Betty was more attractive now than in her early girlhood.

"I think the children have improved very much," she said quickly.

"Jack was a horrid little prig nine years ago!" She hadn't forgiven Radmore.

And yet, in a sense, she was readjusting her views and theories about him, for the simple reason that he, Godfrey Radmore, had changed so utterly.