When various details of hospitality have been offered by a comparative stranger a man hardly likes to accept them all.

But in this case he had to do it.

He would be delighted, he said, to stay at Rufford Hall from the Monday to the Wednesday;--Lady Augustus and Miss Trefoil would also be delighted;--and so also would Mr.Gotobed be delighted.

And Miss Trefoil would be further delighted to accept Lord Rufford's offer of a horse for the Tuesday.

As for himself, if he rode at all, a horse would come for him to the meet.