"I'm afraid it's true. But we really oughtn't to discuss a woman, even as
we are doing now. The only excuse is that we're both so fond of her,"
said Radmore lightly.
But even as he spoke he felt heavy-hearted. Jack Tosswill had got it very
badly, far worse than he had suspected, and somehow he didn't believe
that the medicine he had just administered had done the young man any
good.
CHAPTER XXIV
Two days went by, and now Saturday had come round again.
In a sense nothing had happened during those two days, and to some of the
inmates of Old Place the week had seemed extremely long and dull.
Mrs. Crofton had suddenly gone up to town for two nights, and both Jack
and Rosamund, in their very different ways, felt depressed and lonely in
consequence. But she was coming back to-day, and Rosamund was going to
meet her at the station with the Old Place pony cart.
At breakfast Rosamund suggested that perhaps Godfrey might like to motor
her there instead, but to her vexation he didn't "rise" at all. He simply
observed, rather shortly, that he was going on a rather long business
expedition: and Rosamund retorted, pertly, "Business on a Saturday? How
strange!" to receive the dry reply: "Yes, it does seem strange, doesn't
it?"
Half an hour later Betty and Timmy were busily engaged in washing up the
breakfast things when Godfrey Radmore strolled into the scullery.
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