Nurse Bennett was in ecstasies about her, while Aunt Julie kept saying to Fenella over and over again,
“I never imagined there could be anyone like that out of a book. She is wonderful, dear, quite wonderful!”
Fenella knew that in complimenting her about Kay they thought they were making themselves pleasant and when she was alone she had to admit that somewhere within her there was a streak of jealousy that she had not hitherto suspected.
It was hard after all these years of running the house, of being the one person in the Prentis household to whom everyone turned either in sorrow, in happiness or in a difficulty, to find herself relegated very much to the background.
Kay shone.
She was a star both on the screen and off it, she glittered and scintillated and everyone she met was appa
