"Hello, Theo," said he.

"How d'ye do, Estelle ?" Miss Wilmot shook hands with him, a shade constrainedly.

"How are you, Arthur ?" she said.
It was in his mouth to ask why she hadn't been to see Adelaide.

He checked himself just in time.

She and Adelaide were great friends as youngsters at the public school, but the friendship cooled into acquaintance as Adelaide developed fashionable ideas and tastes.