CHAPTER V

A SOCIAL CUP OF TEA Mrs. Armitage did not forget over night her amiable intentions in the matter of Cynthia Ayres. Tactfully she ignored her son’s mysterious secretiveness, and the elaborate explanations Ross evolved were never called for. She had a disconcerting way of introducing Cynthia into the conversation, asking a question which took Ross off his guard, and gave him the sensation of walking amid pitfalls. At the end of a week she asked for Cynthia’s address. Ross gave it with a reluctance only too obvious. M…