CHAPTER EIGHT‘Jimmy—darling!’
Jimmy Latter rumpled his fair hair.
‘Well, it seems quite a good plan. Julia says——’
Lois came up to him laughing and put her hand against his lips.
‘Oh, my dear, if it’s Julia! No, Jimmy, really—I do call it the limit! She doesn’t come near us for two years, and then she comes sailing in and wants to turn the house upside down. After all, you know, it is our house.’
‘Well, it is——’
She was still laughing.
‘I’m glad you’ll admit that! But it wouldn’t be if you were to let Julia loose on it. She’s one of those energetic, upheaving sort of people, and I don’t honestly think we should care about being upheaved.’
Jimmy was frowning.
‘She says Ellie’s breaking her heart.’
Lois sighed.
‘She’s fretting about her husband. I don’t see how we can help that. S
