Now, however...
"Do you think this could be he," she said, correcting the girl's grammar instead. "Not that it would be any of your concern, Margaret, if he is or not."
And make of that what you will, she thought, sweeping past Mrs Kemp's messenger with as much an air of dignified elegance as even Elizabeth might have managed.
*~*~*~*
"Why, Mr Travener. How delightful to see you again."
Annie had paused before she entered the room, surveying the tall, handsome figure standing in the same patch of sunshine she had recently been enjoying upstairs. And as soon as she had recognized her caller she mocked the runaway emotions that had carried her down the stairs at a near run.
