John Crewys stood aside to let them pass.

Lady Mary, half amazed and half amused, realized suddenly that her son had forgotten he came back to fetch her.

She hesitated on the threshold.

More cheers and confused shouting greeted Peter's reappearance on the balcony.

He turned and waved to his mother, and the canon came hurrying over the grass.
"The people are shouting for Lady Mary; they want Lady Mary," he cried.
John Crewys looked at her with a smile, and held out his hand, and she stepped over the sill, and went away across the terrace garden with him.
The doctor turned his face from the crowd, and went back alone into the empty room.
"Who _doesn't_ want Lady Mary ?" he said to himself, forlornly..