Elva paused for a moment before she added,
“After all I have hardly seen her all the time I have been growing up, so it cannot be a blow either to her heart or her pocket.”
As she finished speaking Elva slipped out of the room and her aunt heard her running down the passage.
She made a gesture which would have told anyone watching her that she found her niece impossible.
It had always been the same and Elva invariably managed to get her own way.
Because she was so bright and intelligent it was really impossible for anyone to control her, but equally she was afraid that the girl would find herself in trouble sooner or later if someone did not protect her from herself.
That, she admitted, was almost impossible.
Half an hour later Lady Violet and Elva set off for London in a comfortabl
