Somerset entered the enclosure, and as soon as she saw him she came across.
'What is to be done ?' she asked.
'You need not be concerned about such a letter as that.' 'I am concerned.' 'I think it dreadful impertinence,' spoke up Charlotte, who had joined them.

'Can you think who wrote it, Mr.Somerset ?' Somerset could not.
'Well, what am I to do ?' repeated Paula.
'Just as you would have done before.' 'That's what _I_ say,' observed Mrs.Goodman emphatically.
'But I have already altered--I have given up the Greek court.' 'O--you had seen the paper this morning before you looked at my drawing ?' 'I had,' she answered.
Somerset thought it a forcible illustration of her natural reticence that she should have abandoned the design without telling him the reason; but he was glad she had not done it from mere caprice.
She turned to him and said quietly, 'I wish YOU would answer that letter.' 'It would be ill-advised,' said Somerset.

'Still, if, after consideration, you wish it much, I will.

Meanwhile let me impress upon you again the expediency of calling in Mr.Havill--to whom, as your father's architect, expecting this commission, something perhaps is owed--and getting him to furnish an alternative plan to mine, and submitting the choice of designs to some members of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

This letter makes it still more advisable than before.' 'Very well,' said Paula reluctantly.
'Let him have all the particulars you have been good enough to explain to me--so that we start fair in the competition.' She looked negligently on the grass.