"You d?an't know when you're in luck," she said as she thumped the dough"nothing to do but bath and dress the children, and yet you grumble. If you had to work like me""If you'd know what the Colonel is, pray travel overHarry sprang to his feet, but his mother laid her hand on his arm.
"I'm afraid father forgets things. But come in, he's bound to be home to his dinner soon."The boys had one or two secret talks about Caro. She also stimulated that habit of "thinking" which their father so thoroughly disapproved of. Somehow their encounter with her, combined with their encounter with Richard, seemed to have modified their enthusiasm for Odiam. They could not help comparing that supper at Newhaven with that dinner at Rye, and wondering if it was true what she had said about Richard having got away in time, whereas she had been too late.
