THE DUKE HAS AN IDEA Pollyooly did not again entertain royalty.

She kept firmly to her resolve to superintend only the outdoor manners and behaviour of Prince Adalbert.

She would not have her feelings again harrowed by his painfully exact rendering of the noises made by a sturdy, happy porker over its trough.

But out of doors he continued, for the rest of her stay, to be her perpetual, noiseless, devoted, and generally perspiring squire.
That stay came to an end along with the Honourable John Ruffin's windfall.

It had been a very pleasant stay; Pollyooly had enjoyed it more than any time of her life, more even than the days she had spent at Ricksborough Court when Lord Ronald Ricksborough had come there from Eton to spend his holidays.