The butler's face was aglow with pleasure.
"It's all right now you've come, Miss Evelyn," he said joyfully.

"Mrs.
Forbes arrived more than an hour ago." But Tomlinson was in error.

He did not know what tribulations loomed already through the haze of the future, or he would have laid to heart the time-honored advice to venturesome travelers: "Never hallo till you're out of the wood!".