CHAPTER 16Tanis went away, and with suspicious promptness Carey walked in.
“Go and get a coat and I’ll show you the ruins.”
He saw her hesitate. She said,
“I don’t know—”
“I do. Go and get that coat. We’ve got to talk, and it’s quite a good excuse.”
She ran upstairs feeling a little as if she were playing hide-and-seek. But it was no good, she had got to talk to Carey. Quite as passionately as Mrs. Slade she longed to be back in London where nobody noticed where you went or whom you met.
In the passage outside her bedroom she almost ran into Miss Adams, who was emerging from her own room opposite. Stopping to apologize, she found herself unwillingly engaged in conversation. Since Cousin Lucy quite obviously disliked her, it was impossible to guess why she should wish to converse. It
