The Major soon supplied a further form.
"And Mrs.Trustcott, here?
Well, she joined me, let us say, rather more than eighteen months ago.

We had been acquainted before that, however.
That was when I was consenting to serve as groom to some--er--some Jewish bounder in town.

Mrs.Trustcott's parents live in town." The girl, who had been trudging patiently a foot or two behind them, just glanced up at Frank and down again.

He wondered exactly what her own attitude was to all this.

But she made no comment.
"And now we know one another," finished the Major in a tone of genial finality.