She managed to catch her mother alone next morning for a quiet chat.
"Mumsie, dear," she began.

"I've been wanting to ask you this--are we going back to Rotherwood after the holidays ?" Mrs.Saxon folded up her sewing, put her thimble and scissors away in her work-basket, and leaned her elbow on the arm of the garden seat as if prepared for conversation.
"And I've been wanting to talk to you about this, Ingred.

Shall you be very disappointed when I tell you 'No' ?" "Oh, Muvvie!" Ingred's tone was agonized.
"It can't be helped, little woman! It can't indeed! I think you're old enough now to understand if I explain.

You know this war has hit a great many people very hard.

There has been a sort of general financial see-saw; some have made large fortunes, but others have lost them.