Quite happily, Hector thanked Lady Mary with a soft thank you and then picked up a biscuit. However he didn't take a bite until his mother waved him on. Well he hadn't actually had dinner yet, but maybe they wouldn't be having dinner. Perhaps he'd just have biscuits all night! Wouldn't that be lovely.
What year was it? Agnes couldn't believe that this woman was from 1918. "It is 1938, where, I mean when I am from. You truly come from 1918? That's remarkable." A whole twenty years in the past. She wouldn't have been much more than a girl back then.