He must have managed somehow to give her some money.

Only yesterday morning perhaps she didn't know where her next meal--If I say that to myself once more I shall burst out crying!" She balanced her spoon on her teacup and let it fall.
"Now, Miss Fidgety!" her mother commented, with good humour.

And then they all heard a knock at the front door.
"Will Florrie have heard it ?" Mrs.Lessways asked nervously.

What she meant was: "Who on earth can this be ?" But such questions cannot be put in the presence of a newly reconciled old friend.

It was necessary to behave as though knocks at the front door were a regular accompaniment of tea..