He had expected to find Undine still out; but on the stairs he crossed Mrs. Shallum, who threw at him from under an immense hat-brim: "Yes, she's in, but you'd better come and have tea with me at the Luxe. I don't think husbands are wanted!"
Ralph laughingly rejoined that that was just the moment for them to appear; and Mrs. Shallum swept on, cr