6/26 What are we to do, I.should like to know ?' Adela was struck with consternation. She had been prepared for petulant bewailing, but a vehement outburst of this kind was the last thing she could have foreseen, above all to have it directed against herself. 'What right had you to let him go off in that way without saying a word to us? What right had you, I'd like to know ?' Adela calmed herself as she listened. Her surprise at the attack was modified and turned into another channel by Alice's words. |