Of course I know one or two other Malcolms, but
none that could possibly be described as delightful. He gave me two
tickets for the Happy Sunday Evenings in Sloane Square. I've probably
left them at Mornay's, but still it was awfully kind of him to give them
to me."
"Do you think you left Louise there?"
"I might telephone and ask. Oh, Robert, before you clear the tea-things
away I wish you'd ring up Mornay's, in Regent Street, and ask if I left
two theatre tickets and one niece in their shop this afternoon."
"A niece, ma'am?" asked the footman.
"Yes, Miss Louise didn't come home with me, and I'm not sure where I left
her."
"Miss Louise has been upstairs all the afternoon, ma'am, reading to the
second kitchenmaid, who has the neuralgia. I took up tea to Miss Louise
at a quarter to five o'clock, ma'am."
"Of course, how silly of me. I remember now, I asked her to read the
_Faerie Queene_ to poor Emma, to try to send her to sleep. I always get
some one to read the _Faerie Queene_ to me when I have neuralgia, and it
usually sends me to sleep. Louise doesn't seem to have been successful,
but one can't say she hasn't tried. I expect after the first hour or so
the kitchenmaid would rather have been left alone with her neuralgia, but
of course Louise wouldn't leave off till some one told her to.
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