Tom says she looks a regular peach! That's his highest form of praise, you know." Radmore suddenly resolved to say something which had been on his mind of late.

"Don't you think that Jack's making rather a fool of himself over that pretty little lady ?" Betty looked across at him with the frank, direct gaze that he remembered so well.

"I'm afraid he is," she answered.

"He and Janet had quite a row about her this morning.

He seemed to think we had been rude to her; he was most awfully huffy about it.