As to
Jack Tosswill, he felt perplexed, and yes, considerably put out and
annoyed. He had been a good deal taken aback to see how close was the
acquaintance between Mrs. Crofton and Godfrey Radmore.
CHAPTER XIII
There is nothing like a meal, especially a good meal, for inducing
between two people an agreeable sense of intimacy. When Enid Crofton and
her elderly sister-in-law passed from the dining-room of The Trellis
House into the gay-looking little sitting-room, with its old-fashioned,
brightly coloured chintz furnishings, and quaint reproductions of
eighteenth-century prints, the two ladies were far more at ease the one
with the other than before luncheon.
Enid, in the plain black woollen gown, with its white linen collar and
cuffs, which she had discarded almost at once after her husband's
funeral, felt that she was producing a pleasant impression. As they sat
down, one on each side of the cheerful little wood fire, and began
sipping the excellent coffee which the mistress of the house had already
taught her very plain cook to make as it should be made, she suddenly
exclaimed:--
"I do want to thank you again for the money you sent me when poor Cecil
died! It was most awfully good of you, and very useful, too, for the
insurance people did not pay me for nearly a month.
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