As he was turning away, feeling sick at heart, the cook suddenly
vouchsafed the information that her mistress had left a letter for Mrs.
Tosswill, and that The Trellis House odd man, on his way back from the
station, where he had gone with Mrs. Crofton, for she had taken two
large trunks this time, would deliver it at Old Place.
But when he reached home the letter had not yet been delivered, and Jack,
half consciously desiring to visit his misery on someone else, hunted up
Timmy in order to demand why Josephine and her kittens had not been sent
back to Epsom ere now. There had followed a lively scrap, leaving them
both in a bad mood; but at last it was arranged that Godfrey, Betty and
Timmy should motor to Epsom with the cat and her kittens after luncheon.
The morning wore itself slowly away. Only two of the younger people were
entirely happy--Betty, doing her usual work, and Godfrey Radmore. Even he
was more restless than usual, and kept wandering in and out of the
kitchen in a way which Rosamund, who was helping Betty, thought very
tiresome. As for Timmy, his mother could not make him out. He seemed
uncomfortable, and, to her practised eye, appeared to have something on
his conscience.
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