But then neither of us had made any effort to detain him and a notable omission I thought it in Mrs.Lascelles, though to the lad himself it may well have seemed as strange in the old friend as in the new.
"What was it," asked Mrs.Lascelles, when we were on our way home, "that you were going to say about Mr.Evers when he appeared in the flesh in that extraordinary way ?" "I forget," said I, immorally.
"Really?
So soon?
Don't you remember, I thought you meant that he couldn't take care of himself, and you were just going to tell me what you did mean ?" "Oh, well, it wasn't that, because he can!" But, as a matter of fact, I had seen my way to taking care of Master Bob without saying a word either to him or to Mrs.Lascelles, or at all events without making enemies of them both..