I'm sorry now I said what I did say to Jack about Mrs.
Crofton. I ought not to have said it--I'm ashamed of having said it! It
was told me by someone who is rather fond of repeating disagreeable,
sometimes even untrue, things."
Timmy had also grown very red while his mother was making her little
confession. He took up her hand and squeezed it impulsively, as an older
person might have done.
"I think I know who you mean," he said. "You mean Miss Pendarth?"
"Yes," said his mother steadily, "I do mean Miss Pendarth. I think it
quite possible that poor little Mrs. Crofton was never really unkind to
Colonel Crofton at all."
"But you wouldn't like Jack to marry her, Mum, would you?"
Janet felt a shock of dismay go through her. There flashed into her mind
that sometimes most disturbing text--"Out of the mouths of babes and
sucklings...."
"I shouldn't like it at all," she exclaimed, "and I think you're old
enough to understand that such a thing would be impossible. Jack won't
make enough money to keep a wife for years and years." She hesitated, and
then added, speaking to herself rather than to Timmy, "Still, I hope with
all my heart that he won't get foolish about her.
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