“Yes, mother.”
“And you will have Charlotte for company.”
“Charley? Charley’s back?”
“According to her aunt, yes.”
Poor Charley. I could not imagine how put out she must have been to be recalled back to New York on a matter so frivolous as a holiday to foreign shores to hunt for a husband.
“Charley’s really coming? For the same reasons?”
“Charlotte is accompanying you on the Grand Tour, yes. As to how she will discharge her responsibilities, that I cannot say. I don’t imagine that Meredith Elyot will be able to impress upon her niece the gravity of what is appropriate to her position any more than she has done for over a decade. I am sure Charlotte will send the young men there on a merry dance as she has done here in New York and New England. Certainly it is a comfort to know that t
