The E. M. Delafield Boxed Set - 6 Novels in One Edition. E. M. Delafield

      "You'll have to break it to her, Miss Bruce, that it's Miss Jones who is coming. And don't let her think I did it on purpose!"

      "I am sure she would never think anything of the sort."

      "Perhaps not. But Char does get very odd ideas into her head, when she thinks there's any risk of lèse-majesté to her Directorship. I must say," observed Joanna thoughtfully, preparing to go upstairs for her night watch, "I often wish that when Char was younger I'd smacked some of the nonsense out—"

      But before this well-worn aspiration of Miss Vivian's parent, Miss Bruce took her indignant departure.