23/48 And now everybody in the family rallied her on the subject, for they all had come to call him Garry by this time. I informed my mother, but she doesn't seem to resent it. Besides I don't like your first name." Mrs.Cardross laughed gently over her embroidery; Malcourt, who was reading the stock column in the _News_, turned and looked curiously at Hamil, then at Shiela. Then catching Mrs.Carrick's eye: "Portlaw is rather worried over the market," he said. |