Then he had exclaimed:
“You have changed, Carmela! I thought you were one of Felicity’s smart friends she had brought here from London.”
“No, I am just myself,” Carmela answered, “but ‘fine feathers make fine birds’!”
“Oh, you have some new clothes,” Lord Salwick said vaguely, “and you are doing your hair in a new way.”
“It is like mine,” Felicity said, “and I will tell you all about it, darling, after luncheon.”
As soon as Felicity spoke Carmela realised that Lord Salwick had forgotten her and had turned his attention to Felicity as if she filled his whole world.
As soon as the meal was over Carmela went upstairs. “I will send for you when I have made Jimmy agree to everything,” Felicity had said before he arrived.
“Be careful not to tell too many lies!”
“Yes, of course,” Felicity
