- What sort of people are these Wilcoxes, Margaret?
I don't understand.
- I don't know any more than you do.
We met them in Germany.
- Oh.
- We had an awful expedition from Heidelberg to Speyer, to see the old cathedral there.
We met the Wilcoxes in the public gardens.
They hadn't any German, we took some drives together.
Then they invited us to visit them when we came home.
Then Tibby got hay fever and Helen went on alone.
That's really all I can tell you.
- Oh, you girls have always been so independent.
- Isn't that generally reckoned to be a good thing, Aunt Juley?
- Well, I'm sure I don't know, but I have always thought that the care of your sister and brother too great a burden to place upon a young woman of your tender years.
Your youth has practically been thrown away on your precious independence.
- "Practically."
- Yes, Margaret, it has.
Who is to say what the result might have proved by now, had your father left you in my care, which I know your dear mother would have wished-- - Oh, dear Aunt Juley, let's not go over that again.
Poor Mother left it up to Papa to decide, Papa left it up to me, and I don't think I've done so badly after all, and I've always valued your advice.
- Yes, but you never take it.
Oh, I'm not saying you've done badly by Helen and Tibby, dear, just for yourself.
- Aunt Juley!
- Excuse me, Miss, but Master Tibby's asking for you again.
- Thank you, Nancy.
Annie, I think you can clear away the breakfast things now.
- [Annie] Yes, Miss.
(rain pattering) (birds chirping)
