26/31 My mother'd said she'd be coming round this evening, and how was I going to meet her with no locket? Miss Bankes, she was good to me, and Mother daresn't show her face there. So I wrote a letter, and asked Jones's boy to post it. I didn't think you'd get it till to-morrow." "Very fortunately I received it at once. You must come back with us now to The Woodlands, Susan. |