Lowndes, Marie Adelaide Belloc, 1868-1947 / 2008-07-26 00:00:00

He had been such a baby when Janet had married
that sometimes she almost felt as if he were her own child and that
though Tom's relation to her own son was peculiar. Theoretically the
two boys ought to have been pals, or at any rate good friends. But in
practice they were like oil and water--and found it impossible to mix.
When Tom was at home, as now, on his holidays, he spent most of his time
with a schoolfellow of his own age who lived about two miles from
Beechfield. In some ways Timmy was older now than Tom would ever be.


CHAPTER IV

Timmy went on into the dining-room to find his brothers and sisters all
gathered there excepting Dolly. But as he sat down, and as Betty began to
pour out tea, Dolly came in from the garden with the words:--"Guess who
I've met and had a talk with?"
She looked round her eagerly, but no one ventured an opinion. There were
so many, many people whom Dolly might have met and had a talk with, for
she was the most gregarious member of the Tosswill family.
At last Timmy spoke up:--"I expect you've seen Mrs. Crofton," he
observed, his mouth already full of bread and butter.
Dolly was taken aback. "How did you know?" she cried.
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