Chapter 9
A visit was due from Mrs. Frothingham, who had not been seen at Pinner for more than six months. She would have come at New Year, but an attack of influenza upset her plans. Now she wrote to announce her arrival on Saturday. 'I wish it had been Monday,' said Alma; 'I have to go to the Crystal Palace.' 'Is it imperative?' asked her husband. 'Yes; there's something new of Sterndale Bennett's, and I've asked Dora.' It seemed to Harvey that this arrangement might have been put aside without great inconvenience, but, as usual, he made no comment. As he would be in town on Saturday, he promised to meet their visitor at Waterloo. Alma, he thought, had never shown much gratitude for her step-mother's constant kindness; during the past half-year she had now and then complained of the trouble of
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