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Do you think that he'd let Josephine go on being alive?" "No," his mother answered, sadly, "I don't think it would make any difference." "I thought by what the doctor said at first that they were going to take Josephine somewhere to see if she was really mad," said Timmy in a choking voice, "just as they did to Captain Berner's dog last year." Janet Tosswill got up from her little boy's bed.
He felt hideously disturbed as certain tiny past happenings crowded on his memory. He felt he would give half his possessions were it possible thereby to transplant The Trellis House hundreds of miles from Beechfield. He threw a rueful thought to Jack Tosswill. Miss Pendarth had been right, after all.
"I don't suppose she would have come at all if she had known what a beastly, inhospitable place Beechfield is," said Jack sharply. Though he was in such a hurry to be off, he waited in order to add: "She's been here nearly a month, and you've never called on her yet it's too bad!" Janet Tosswill flushed deeply. Jack had not spoken to her in such a tone since he was fifteen. "What nonsense!
After Timmy Tosswill had been to the village shop and done his mother's errand, he wandered on, his dog, Flick, at his heels, debating within himself what he should do next. Like most children who lead an abnormal, because a lonely, childhood, he was in some ways very mature, in other ways still very babyish. He was at once secretive and whenever anything touched his heart emotionally expansive.
She felt thoroughly ruffled and upset a very unusual condition for her to be in, for Janet Tosswill was an equable and happy-natured woman, for all her affectionate and sensitive heart. She told herself that it was true the whole world had altered in the last nine years everything had altered except Beechfield.
She had felt so sure that Godfrey Radmore would manage to get away from Old Place, and call on her this afternoon, for Jack Tosswill had told her that he was arriving before tea she felt depressed and disappointed though she had not yet given up hope. She wondered if he would come alone the first time, or if one of the girls would accompany him.
For the first time in her life she was quite at a loss as to what a man, of whom she was seeing a great deal, really felt about her. Rosamund Tosswill was very young, and Enid secretly thought her very stupid, but there could be no doubt as to her essential truthfulness. Now, a day or two ago, Rosamund had said: "Isn't it funny of Godfrey?
For the first time in her life she did not know what it was she really wanted, or rather she was uncertain as to what it would be best for her to do. The thought of seeing Jack Tosswill, of having to fence and flirt with him in her present disturbed state of mind, had been intolerable. That was the real reason why she had stayed upstairs all to-day.
When the rather nervous young rector had got well away with his sermon, and had begun to attract the serious attention of Mr. Tosswill and of Godfrey Radmore, Timmy very quietly drew out of his little, worn tweed coat a long sharp pin.
Janet Tosswill, like all intelligent step-mothers, sometimes speculated as to what her predecessor had really been like. Her husband's elder children were so amazingly unlike one another, as well as utterly unlike her own son Timmy. Betty, the eldest of her step-children, was her favourite, and she had also been deeply attached to Betty's twin-brother, George.
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