Lady Waring now felt that the party had lasted long enough, so she began her good-byes, lingering a moment with Mr. Miller to ask news of Mrs. Brandon, who was a great friend of her Vicar and his wife.
“Mrs. Brandon is doing wonders,” said Mr. Miller. “What with the way she is looking after the land girls and running the little nursery school in her house, and the way my dear wife is caring for the evacuee children, several of whose parents in London have quite disappeared, we could not be a happier parish. And we hear that Mrs. Grant, her daughter’s mother-in-law, is quite safe in Calabria and is allowed to continue her work of collecting folk songs. And how is Sir Harry?”
Lady Waring said he was well and busy and how they hoped to see something of Mr. Needham.
“An excellent young man,
