'I never know quite what she wishes, or how to please her; but she's _so_ good-natured; and when she goes to town for the season--she does not always, you know--her house is really very gay--you can't think----' Here again he was interrupted, for the door opened, and Lady Knollys entered.

'And you know, Charles,' she continued, 'it would not do to forget your visit to Snodhurst; you wrote, you know, and you have only to-night and to-morrow.

You are thinking of nothing but that moor; I heard you talking to the gamekeeper; I know he is--is not he, Maud, the brown man with great whiskers, and leggings?
I'm very sorry, you know, but I really must spoil your shooting, for they do expect you at Snodhurst, Charlie; and do not you think this window a little too much for Miss Ruthyn?
Maud, my dear, the air is very sharp; shut it down, Charles, and you'd better tell them to get a fly for you from the town after luncheon.

Come, dear,' she said to me.

'Was not that the breakfast bell?
Why does not your papa get a gong ?--it is so hard to know one bell from another.' I saw that Captain Oakley lingered for a last look, but I did not give it, and went out smiling with Cousin Knollys, and wondering why old ladies are so uniformly disagreeable.
In the lobby she said, with an odd, goodnatured look-- 'Don't allow any of his love-making, my dear.