CHAPTER X UNDER LOCK AND KEY

“Oh, how perfectly splendid! Simon is coming out here to join us.” It was a fortnight after Shirley’s adventure on the shore when Kit, looking up delightedly from her morning’s mail, made the foregoing announcement. “He’s finished up that tiresome legal business which was bothering him,” she went on, “and says he thinks he deserves a holiday.” Shirley was aware of a thrill of very genuine pleasure at the prospect of Drake’s advent. Even in the short interval which had elapsed between her first interview with him an…