I've proved that, for I'm a late bird myself; and to my joy I have learned that this is the only house with which I am acquainted that you can get red-hot bacon and kidneys at any hour from eight to twelve; that lunch runs plenteously from one to three, and that you can get tea and toast--my great and only weakness, Miss Falconer--whenever you like to ring for it.

You will find Lady Clansford presiding at the breakfast-table: I believe she has been sitting there--amiable martyr as she is--since the early dawn." She smiled at him with languid approval, as if he were some paid jester, and went into the breakfast-room.

There were others there beside Lady Clansford--most of them the young people--it is, alas! only the young who can sleep through the bright hours of a summer's morn--and a discussion on the programme of the day was being carried on with a babel of voices and much laughter.
"You shall decide for us, Miss Falconer!" exclaimed one of the young men, whose only name appeared to be Bertie, for he was always addressed as and spoken of by it.

"It's a toss-up between a drive and a turn on the lake in the electric launch.

_I_ proposed a sail, but there seemed to be a confirmed and general scepticism as to my yachting capacities, and Lady Plaistow says she doesn't want to be drowned before the end of the season.