She looked upon it as a settled arrangement that he should ride with her every day--that every day he must either lunch or dine with them--that he must be her escort to theater and ball.

If he at times pleaded other engagements she would look at him with an air of childish wonder and say: "They cannot have so great a claim upon you as I have, Norman ?" Then he was disconcerted, and knew not what to answer; it was true that there was no one with so great a claim--it seemed to have been handed down from his mother to him.
His eyes were still further opened one day when a large and fashionable crowd had gathered at Lady Dalton's garden-party.

Philippa was, as heretofore, the belle, looking more than usually lovely in a light gossamer dress of white and pink.

She was surrounded by admirers.

Lord Arleigh stood with a group of gentlemen under a great spreading beech-tree.
"How beautiful she is, that Miss L'Estrange!" said one--Sir Alfred Martindale.