No day went by without the young man making some more or less
plausible excuse to call there once, twice, and sometimes thrice.
It was noticed, too, by those interested in such matters--and in
Beechfield they were in the majority--that Mr. Godfrey Radmore, whose
return to Old Place had naturally caused a good deal of talk and
speculation--was also a frequent visitor at The Trellis House. Now and
again he would call there in his car, and take Mrs. Crofton for a long
drive; but they never went out alone--either Dolly or Rosamund, and
invariably Timmy, would be of the party.
As the days went on, each member of the Tosswill family began to have a
definite and, so to speak, crystallised view of Enid Crofton. Rosamund
had become her champion, thus earning for the first time in her life the
warm approval of her brother Jack; but Dolly and Tom grew rather jealous
of their sister's absorption in the stranger. Rosamund was so very often
at The Trellis House. In fact, when Jack was not to be found there,
Rosamund generally was. But she had soon discovered that her new friend
preferred to see her visitors singly. Betty kept her thoughts as to Mrs.
Crofton to herself--for one thing the two very seldom met.
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