"Nopper" Harrison had remained in the north to renew arrangements for the now hated ball and to look after the advance details of the yacht cruise.

Dr.Lotless and his sister, with "Subway" Smith and the Grays, made up Brewster's party.
Lotless dampened Monty's spirits by relentlessly putting him on rigid diet, with most discouraging restrictions upon his conduct.

The period of convalescence was to be an exceedingly trying one for the invalid.
At first he was kept in-doors, and the hours were whiled away by playing cards.

But Monty considered "bridge" the "pons asinorum," and preferred to play piquet with Peggy.

It was one of these games that the girl interrupted with a question that had troubled her for many days.
"Monty," she said, and she found it much more difficult than when she had rehearsed the scene in the silence of her walks; "I've heard a rumor that Miss Drew and her mother have taken rooms at the hotel.
Wouldn't it be pleasanter to have them here ?" A heavy gloom settled upon Brewster's face, and the girl's heart dropped like lead.