But shall you tell Nanda ?" Mitchy wondered.

"Tell her-- ?" "Well, everything.

I think, you know," Mrs.Brook musingly observed, "that it would really serve her right." Mitchy's silence, which lasted a minute, seemed to take the idea, but not perhaps quite to know what to do with it.

"Ah I'm afraid I shall never really serve her right!" Just as he spoke the butler reappeared; at sight of whom Mrs.Brook immediately guessed.

"Mr.Longdon ?" "In Mr.Brookenham's room, ma'am.