Ariadne said she wasn't crying, and at the same time asked Christina to be good enough, as she was up, to get her a clean pocket-handkerchief out of the drawer, one of those tied up with blue ribbon, not pink, for they are larger and plainer. Christina got it and then came and sat on my foot, which she could scarcely help doing, as I was only just but tumbling out of the bed altogether. She was exceedingly nice and sympathetic and agreed that Lady Scilly ought to put Simon back, for he was too little a fish for her to hook, being only twenty-four and she thirty-eight. She assured Ariadne, much as Mother used to assure me, that there were no ghosts--then if there aren't, what are the white things one sees hanging about the doors of rooms?--that Simon didn't really care for an old thing like that, and that if he did, her attraction must naturally wear out in the course of ages, and that Simon wouldn't be so very old by the time that happened, and would know a nice girl when he saw one, with his unjaundiced eyes. She also thought Ariadne should not put upon me so, and should give me a bigger piece of bed. I was thinking all the time she was talking of George, and how Mother too as well as Ariadne was unhappy because of this evil fairy. I wished the Scilly motor-car might upset and spoil Lady Scilly a little sooner, and that Simon mightn't be in it when that happened. When Christina had tucked me in, and kissed us, and gone away, I made Ariadne make me a solemn promise that come what would, if she were ever married to Simon Hermyre, or indeed to any one else, that she would let all the others alone and not poach; for even if a young man seems unattached, you may be pretty sure there's a girl worrying about him somewhere in the background. One woman, one man! That's my motto, and indeed a woman now-a-days is lucky if she gets a whole man to herself as Christina has Peter, and well she knows when she is well off, and only laughs when her Peter says, as he did at breakfast, when she offered him Quaker Oats, "Woman, haven't you learnt that my constitution clashes with cereals?"