CHAPTER THIRTEENAdriana came down to lunch with plans made for all of them. It annoyed her a good deal to find that Geoffrey was not there.
“I shall rest for an hour and then take Mabel for a drive. If Geoffrey intended to go off like this he should have let me know. I suppose he hasn’t by any chance taken the Daimler?” She fixed a demanding stare on Edna, who fidgeted with her table-napkin.
“Oh, no—of course not. I mean, how could he, when Ninian had it to meet Mabel?”
Adriana gave her short red hair a toss.
“Implying that nothing else stopped him from taking my car without so much as asking whether I wanted it myself! And don’t say he couldn’t have known I was going to use it, because that is merely aggravating! If you leave me alone, I shall probably have got over being annoyed by t
