Jack is just a scalp to her. I don't mind her flirtation with
Godfrey--that's much more reasonable!"
Then she had hurried off upstairs without waiting for an answer, and her
step-mother, looking back, rather wondered that Betty had said that.
CHAPTER XIX
Two hours later Janet Tosswill, after having tried in vain to read
herself to sleep, got out of bed and put on her dressing gown. Somehow
she felt anxious about Timmy. She had gone to his room on her way up
to bed; but, hearing no sound, she had crept away, hoping that he had
already cried himself to sleep.
All sorts of curious theories and suspicions drifted through her mind as
she lay, tossing this way and that, trying to fall asleep. She wondered
uneasily why Timmy had brought Josephine at all into the drawing-room.
Of course there had been nothing exactly wrong in his doing so, though,
as Betty had justly remarked, it was a stupid thing to do so soon after
the birth of the cat's kittens. And Timmy was not stupid.
Janet told herself crossly that it was almost as if Mrs. Crofton had the
evil eye, as far as animals were concerned! There had come back to her
the unpleasant scene which had occurred on the first evening their late
guest had come to Old Place, when Flick, most cheerful and happy-minded
of terriers, had behaved in such an extraordinary fashion.
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