I'm sorry now I said what I did say to Jack about Mrs.
Crofton.

I ought not to have said it--I'm ashamed of having said it! It was told me by someone who is rather fond of repeating disagreeable, sometimes even untrue, things." Timmy had also grown very red while his mother was making her little confession.

He took up her hand and squeezed it impulsively, as an older person might have done.
"I think I know who you mean," he said.

"You mean Miss Pendarth ?" "Yes," said his mother steadily, "I do mean Miss Pendarth.

I think it quite possible that poor little Mrs.Crofton was never really unkind to Colonel Crofton at all." "But you wouldn't like Jack to marry her, Mum, would you ?" Janet felt a shock of dismay go through her.