"
"We mustn't forget to ask her in for lunch or dinner on one of the days
that Godfrey is here," observed Janet. "I gather they're friends. He
asked if she'd already come."
* * * * *
Timmy was supposed to prepare his lessons between tea and dinner, but
unlike the ordinary boy, he much preferred to wake early and work before
breakfast. This was considered not good for his health, and there was
a constant struggle between himself and his determined mother to force
him to do the normal thing. So after she had finished her tea, she
beckoned to her son, and he unwillingly got up and followed her into
the drawing-room. But before he could settle down at his own special
table Betty came in.
"Janet, I want to ask you something before I go into the village. There
are one or two things we must get in, if Mrs. Crofton is coming this
evening--"
The little boy did not wait to hear his mother's answer. He crept very
quietly out of the open window, which was close to his table, and then
made his way round to the first of the long French windows of the
dining-room. He was just in time to hear his brother Tom ask in a very
solemn tone: "I say, you fellows! Wasn't Betty once engaged to this
Radmore chap?"
Timmy, skilfully ensconced behind the full old green damask curtains,
listened, with all his ears, for the answer.
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