"Godfrey Radmore here?" repeated Jack slowly. "It's queer he would want
to come--after the odd way he's behaved to us."
"Yes, it is rather strange," Janet tried to speak lightly. "But there it
is! The whole world has turned topsy-turvy since any of us saw him last."
"I wonder if he's still very rich," went on Jack.
Janet Tosswill felt startled. "Why shouldn't he be?" she asked.
"Oh, I don't know--it only occurred to me that he might have lost some of
this money in the same way that he lost that first fortune of his."
"It wasn't a fortune"--Betty's quiet voice broke in very decidedly--"and
most of it was lost by a friend of his, not by Godfrey himself at all. He
was too proud to say anything about it to father, but he wrote and told
George."
A curious stillness fell over the company of young people. They were all
in their different ways very much surprised, for Betty never mentioned
her twin-brother. All at once they each remembered about Betty and
Godfrey--all except Timmy, who had never been told.
"And now what's this about Mrs. Crofton?" asked Janet at last, breaking a
silence that had become oppressive. "Do I understand that she's coming to
supper to-night?"
It was Betty who answered: "I hope you don't mind? Dolly thought it the
only thing to do, as the poor woman's cook hadn't arrived.
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