"I mean does she know he has been and gone ?" Mrs.Brook, from where she stood and through the window, looked rather at the sky.

"Her father will have told her." "Her father ?" Mitchy frankly wondered.

"Is HE in it ?" Mrs.Brook had at this a longer pause.

"You assume, I suppose, Mitchy dear," she then quavered "that I put him up--!" "Put Edward up ?" he broke in.
"No--that of course.

Put Van up to ideas--!" He caught it again.