As there was no stopping Nannie when once launched on the perfections of the Leslie family, Lady Waring got up.
“I really must go, Nannie,” she said. “Selina sent you her love and is coming down to see you to-morrow afternoon.”
“Tell her to bring an apron then,” said Nannie. “I’m turning out the big bedroom and she can give me a hand. All those curtains will have to be washed. I hope she is giving satisfaction, my lady.”
Lady Waring said, with truth, that Selina was a great help and she didn’t know what she would do without her, and so departed.
Apart from a meeting of the W.V.S. at the village hall at two o’clock, a meeting of the Red Cross at the vicarage at half-past three and a lecture at the convalescent home at five o’clock, Lady Waring had nothing to do. The lecture was provided
