He broke the ice at once.
"Mr.Halifax, I have long wished to know you.

Mrs.Halifax, my daughter encouraged me to pay this impromptu visit." Here ensued polite inquiries after Lady Caroline Brithwood; we learned that she was just returned from abroad, and was entertaining, at the Mythe House, her father and brother.
"Pardon--I was forgetting my son--Lord Ravenel." The youth thus presented merely bowed.

He was about eighteen or so, tall and spare, with thin features and large soft eyes.

He soon retreated to the garden-door, where he stood, watching the boys play, and shyly attempting to make friends with Muriel.
"I believe Ravenel has seen you years ago, Mrs.Halifax.

His sister made a great pet of him as a child.