CHAPTER XI
A TELEGRAM
Nancy drove Titty and Dick back to the Albion, they said their goodbyes and she promised to collect them in the morning in time to take them to their dinghy moored at the Wade, so they could return it to the boatyard at the peak of high tide.
When the two of them walked in to the hotel and asked the woman behind the reception desk for their room key she silently passed it to Dick and as she did so looked rather oddly at Titty.
"Are you a Miss Walker?" Titty answered her wondering how she knew.
"Yes, is there something wrong?" The woman continued, but still was looking strangely at them both.
"So your Not Mrs Callum?" This seemed an intrusive question, Titty was slightly offended by this but decided to brush if off with some humour.
"Well, not yet!" She felt herself blush and Dick was put out at the woman's questioning and assumptions.
"There's a telegram for you, a Miss T Walker." She handed Titty the dark red envelope. Walking away from the reception desk to get away from the woman and to give them some privacy, Titty ripped open the envelope at once and read the telegram out loud to Dick
+++SUSAN & ME DRIVING DOWN TOMORROW PHONE ME
DOT+++
Titty turned to him.
"Susan? She must be on leave, I know she has a car. We'd better telephone Dot and explain what's happened and tell them where to meet us, they can come to the Naze with Nancy and Daisy." Dick went over to the reception desk, the woman still looked at him oddly. He ignored this and continued as if nothing had happened between them.
"Can I make a telephone call please?"
"Certainly sir, I'll add it to your bill." She then passed him the telephone.
Dick dialled Dot's number and then passed the handset to Titty, she explained to Dot that they had found Nancy and they should meet them outside the Albion the next day around lunchtime, she knew that as they had to return the dinghy to the boatyard at high tide this would fit in well. Finishing the call she handed the telephone back to the woman behind the desk who in return looked at her in an odd way once more.
When they were alone in their room each of them told the other of the conversations they had with the others. Though they had found Nancy there still seemed no obvious reason as to why she and Daisy had moved to the cottage, it was only Daisy's good fortune that they had somewhere to go.
Eventually Dick could avoid the question on his mind no longer.
"Titty, what about us?" Teasing him slightly she answered.
"What about us?"
"When we get back to London what are we going to do? And what are we going to tell everyone?" Titty looked content.
"We don't have to do much at all. I want to carry on my life much as I have done for years only with you next to me, will you look for a job?"
"I don't actually need to, I was paid so well in America and managed to save enough to live on now until I become a pensioner, if I'm careful." He thought for a moment. "Titty, how do you manage, from what Dot tells me you've never worked, just the occasional thing for a week or two for people you know, is that true?" He regretted being so nosey but she didn't mind his enquiries in to this part of her life.
"It is, you must have heard about my dowsing in Wales?"
"I did, I'd also heard about people with your talent in the war."
"Well, I find things for people, and sometimes when it is something the really need to get back they will pay me quite a lot. So I mostly get by on what I earn this way."
Dick asked no more, and they both busied themselves with getting ready for bed.