Tosswill is exactly the same."
She felt vexed that he hadn't included Betty. To her step-mother's fond
eyes Betty was more attractive now than in her early girlhood. "I think
the children have improved very much," she said quickly. "Jack was a
horrid little prig nine years ago!"
She hadn't forgiven Radmore. And yet, in a sense, she was readjusting her
views and theories about him, for the simple reason that he, Godfrey
Radmore, had changed so utterly. From having been a hot-tempered,
untameable, high-spirited boy, he was now, or so it seemed to her, a
cool, restrained man of the world, old for his years. In fact it was he
who was now a stranger--but a stranger who had most attractive manners,
and who had somehow slipped very easily into their everyday life. Janet
liked his deferential manner to the master of the house, she enjoyed his
kindly and good-humoured, if slightly satirical dealings with Jack and
with pretty Rosamund, and she was very grateful to him for the way he
treated queer, little Timmy, her own beloved changeling child.
And now something happened that touched her, and made her suddenly feel
as if she was with the old Godfrey Radmore again.
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