50, you must fly.'
'Fly!' he coolly repeated. 'Tell Mysie, Lily, that Fly has never
ceased talking of her. That child has been saving her money to fit out
one of Florence's orphan's. She--'
'Rotherwood,' broke in Mr. Mohun, 'your wife charged me to see that you
were in time for that dinner. A ministerial one.'
'Don't encourage him, Lily,' chimed in the colonel. 'I'll call a cab.
See him safe off, Maurice.'
And off he was hunted amid the laughter of the ladies; the manner of
all to one another was so exactly what it had been in the old times.
'I could hardly help telling him to take care, or Victoria would never
let him out again,' said Miss Mohun. 'Poor old fellow, it would have
been a fine chance for him with four of us together.'
'You can come back with us, Jenny!'
'I brought my bag in case of accidents.'
'And we'll telegraph to Adeline to join us tomorrow,' said Mr. Mohun,
who seemed to have been seized with a hunger for the sight of his
kindred.
'Telegraph! My dear Maurice, Ada's nerves would be torn to smithereens
by a telegram without me to open it for her. I've a card here to post
to her; but I expect that I must go down tomorrow and fetch her, which
will be the best way, for I have a meeting.'
'Jenny, I declare you are a caution even to Miss Hacket,' said Colonel
Reginald, re-entering.
'Well, Ada always was the family pet. Besides, I told you I had a
G.F.S. meeting. Did you get a cab for us; Lily has had quite walking
enough.
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