Hosack didn't want her to go either, but of course that had nothing to do with it, and so far as Mrs.Hosack was concerned, let the bedroom be occupied by some one of her set and she was happy enough.

Indeed, it saved her the brain fag of inviting some one else, "always difficult with so many large houses to fill and so few people to go round, my dear." Harry Oldershaw was such a nice boy that he did just as he liked.

If it suited him he could keep his room until the end of the season.

The case of Gilbert Palgrave was entirely different.

A privileged, spoiled person, who made no effort to be generally agreeable and play up, he was rather by way of falling into the same somewhat difficult category as a minor member of the British Royalty.