“I have never heard anything so amazing!” Lord Harleston exclaimed. “It must have been a very dull life.”
Nelda smiled and shook her head.
“Only if you look at it from a social point of view. Intellectually Mama and I had a wonderful time. When we could afford it, we went to concerts, theatres and the Opera, we visited Museums if there were any and, of course, all the time we were on the lookout for books.”
“And do you mean to say,” Lord Harleston asked, “that you had no friends of your own age?”
“I did not want any,” Nelda replied, “since both Mama and Papa were to me the most fascinating people in the whole world.”
“And yet though never meeting people in what you might call your ‘own class’,” Lord Harleston said after a moment, “you were still allowed to tend the wounds of miners an
