Duncan, get your supper, and make yourself comfortable.
Blanche, my dear, go back to the drawing-room, and expect us in to tea immediately.

You will know where your friend is before you go to bed to-night." With those comforting words he returned to the gentlemen.

In ten minutes more they all appeared in the drawing-room; and Lady Lundie (firmly persuaded that she had never closed her eyes) was back again in baronial Scotland five hundred years since.
Blanche, watching her opportunity, caught her uncle alone.
"Now for your promise," she said.

"You have made some important discoveries at Craig Fernie.

What are they ?" Sir Patrick's eye turned toward Geoffrey, dozing in an arm-chair in a corner of the room.