She has hinted at it more than once already." "There will be nothing of that sort at Salt-house," Cecil de la Borne declared eagerly.

"You see, I sha'n't have any guests at all except just yourselves.

Don't you think that would be best ?" "I do, indeed," the Princess assented, "and mind, you are not to make any special preparations for us.

For my part, I simply want a little rest before we go abroad again, and we really want to come to you feeling the same way that one leaves one's home for lodgings in a farmhouse.

You will understand this, won't you, Cecil ?" she added earnestly, laying her fingers upon his arm, "or we shall not come." "It shall be just as you say," he answered.