26/27 Also how very considerate he is of Mrs.Coombe, how patient with Jane, how indulgent with you--" "Indulgent with me!" indignantly. "Why should he be 'indulgent' with me ?" "Why, indeed," asked Miss Macnair pointedly, "unless on account of your mother ?" Esther subdued a desire to laugh. Many little things, half-observed, seemed to fit in with Miss Annabel's theory. Yet, somehow, instinct told her that the theory was wrong. "At first I thought it possible but now I seem to know that we're on the wrong track. |