"Mrs.Thursby would not believe it at first, and afterwards she said she was afraid there would not be any party; but there was, Ruth.

There was a married couple, very nice people, of the name of Reynolds.

I dare say, being London people, you may have known them.

She had quite the London look about her, though not dressed low of an evening; and he was a clergyman, who had overworked himself, and had come down to Stoke Moreton to rest, and had soup at luncheon.

And there was another person besides, a Colonel Middleton, a very clever man, who wrote a book that was printed, and had been in India, and was altogether most superior.