"But do you prefer an ice, or more strawberries and cream ?" "Neither, thank you.

I've been here before," the young girl said with a jolly smile.

"But I didn't know I should come back with an author!" "Then we'll go out into the open air," the author said; and they followed Rachel at but a few yards' distance.
It was a picturesque if an aimless pageant, the smart frocks sweeping the smooth sward, the pretty parasols with the prettier faces underneath, the well-set-up and well-dressed men, with the old gray manor rising upon an eminence in the background, and a dazzling splash of scarlet and of brass somewhere under the trees.

The band was playing selections from _The Geisha_ as Langholm emerged from the tea-tent in Rachel's wake.

Mrs.Venables was manoeuvring her two highly marriageable girls in opposite quarters of the field, and had only her own indefatigable generalship to thank for what it lost her upon this occasion.