"I am all alone.

I should have had a dull week, but I knew you were enjoying yourself with your old friend at Garoopna.

A great party there, I believe ?" "I am glad to get home, mother," he said.

"We were very jolly at first, but latterly Sam Buckley and Cecil Mayford have been looking at one another like cat and dog.

Stay, though; let me be just; the fierce looks were all on Cecil Mayford's side." "What was the matter ?" "Alice Brentwood was the matter, I rather suspect," he said, getting off his horse.