MR.

GREATHEART It was a very meek and subdued Dinah who made her appearance in the _salle-a-manger_ on the following morning.
She and Billy were generally in the best of spirits, and the room usually rang with their young laughter.

But that morning even Billy was decorously quiet, and his sister scarcely spoke or raised her eyes.
Colonel de Vigne, white-moustached and martial, sat at the table with them, but neither Lady Grace nor Rose was present.

The Colonel's face was stern.

He occupied himself with letters with scarcely so much as a glance for the boy and girl on either side of him.
There was a letter by Dinah's plate also, but she had not opened it.