Some of the people were already gone, and most of the others were to leave in the course of the day.

Lady Maud had just said good-bye to a party of ten who were going off together, and she had not had a chance to speak to Margaret, who had come down late, after her manner.

Most great singers are portentous sleepers.

As for Logotheti, he always had coffee in his room wherever he was, he never appeared at breakfast, and he got rid of his important correspondence for the day before coming down.
'I've had a letter from Threlfall,' he said as Lady Maud came up.

'I was just telling Miss Donne about it.