“Hush your tongue!”
“But she did dance-”
did
“We must not speak of anything that happened at that party!”
“Who else have you called dear?” Mrs. Peabody redirected.
“I called Milfred Lakesmith’s parents just now of course. Before that I spoke with Mr. Bartholameu, who is Hilda’s father.”
“What did he say?” Phelinda was hopeful.
“He said that he would need to look over our accounting before scheduling a visit.”
accounting
“Well that’s not difficult. Can we not call the barrister?”
“While I want to marry Mortimer off, I do not want to afflict him with a money-hungry father-in-law.”
“But you said—”
“I know what I said.” Mrs. Dixon interrupted Millie. She knew what the girl was going to say: She was going to remind everyone how Mrs. Dixon had planned the entire evening for
