He is about the farm somewhere." "If you don't mind, Lily, I think I'll stay here.

I suppose they'll be back soon.

Of course I should like to see them before I go away to London.

But, Lily, I came over now chiefly to see you.

It was you who asked me to promise." Had Crosbie been right in those remarks of his?
Had she been imprudent in her little endeavour to be cordially kind to her old friend?
"Shall we go into the drawing-room ?" she said, feeling that she would be in some degree safer there than out among the shrubs and paths of the garden.