"
"D'you mean," asked Miss Pendarth, "that he's coming to stay with this
Mrs. Crofton at The Trellis House?"
"Oh, no!" exclaimed Betty. (What odd ideas Miss Pendarth sometimes had.)
"He's coming to Old Place of course: he telephoned to Janet from London,
and proposed himself."
"I think it's very good of you all to put up with him," said Miss
Pendarth drily, "I've never said so before, my dear, but I thought it
exceedingly ungrateful of him not to have come down here when he was in
England a year ago, I mean when he sent that puppy to your brother
Timmy."
Betty remained silent, and for once her old friend felt--what she too
seldom did feel--that she might just as well have kept her thoughts to
herself.
Miss Pendarth was really attached to Betty Tosswill, but she was one of
those people--there are many such--who find it all too easy to hurt those
they love.
They both got up.
"I'm afraid you think me very uncharitable," said the older woman
suddenly.
Betty looked at her rather straight. "I sometimes think it strange," she
said slowly, "that anyone as kind and clever as I know you are, does not
make more allowances for people. For my part, I wonder that Godfrey is
coming here at all.
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