Chapter Eighteen
‘I have been looking all over for you, Frosty, and here you still are. What have you been doing?’
It was Gussie who spoke, having sought her trusty companion at home to no avail, and having finally returned to the last place she had seen her: the home of the Maundevyles.
And there was Miss Frostell, and Great-Uncle Silvester, too. The pair were holed up in a suite of rooms a little secluded from the rest of the house; Gussie was conducted up by no less a person than Lady Maundevyle herself, in a markedly better humour than before.
‘Your excellent governess remains with us, Miss Werth, together with your noble ancestor, and — as you will presently see! — they have been doing dear Charles a great deal of good. It is really so obliging of them. I have been uneasy about h
