The Mountain Girl by Emma Payne Erskine Chapter 30 Page 19

was hers. A carriage met them filled with gay people. She did not notice them, but they gazed at her and turned to look again as they passed.

“I say, you know!” said one of the men, as they whirled by.

“There, that was Lady Geraldine Temple in that carriage, and the young man who stared so hard is her son. They’ve been paying a visit, or maybe they’ve brought Lady Clara to stay a bit. They say both families are keen for the match — and why shouldn’t they be? Oh, they’ll entertain the king here some day, and then there’ll be high times at Daneshead!”

An automobile flashed by them, and then another. “There must be a party here to-day, or likely it’s visitors dropping in, now it’s getting toward tea time. It’s