But Fanny Carr will still be about.

She won't come here except just enough to keep up appearances, but she'll still have her business dealings with Joe in the management of her property.

He means to keep in touch, he said, 'with a few of them'-- meaning her, of course--and his tone conveyed quite plainly that I am to leave him alone in that until I can produce friends of my own.

Whereupon, my dear," she threw up her hands, "we come back to exactly the same point at which we have been all along.

Where am I going to find friends ?" And she gave an angry, baffled sigh.