Aunt Greenow Kate Vavasor remained only three days in London before she started for Yarmouth; and during those three days she was not much with her cousin.

"I'm my aunt's, body and soul, for the next six weeks," she said to Alice, when she did come to Queen Anne Street on the morning after her arrival.

"And she is exigeant in a manner I can't at all explain to you.

You mustn't be surprised if I don't even write a line.

I've escaped by stealth now.