LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
| PAGE | |
| Hildegarde and the China Pots | [Frontispiece] |
| "It was very pleasant up in this Airy Bower" | [81] |
| "Jack Ferrers appeared carrying a Huge Bunch of Roses" | [121] |
| "Hildegarde had been making friends with Merlin" | [175] |
| Hildegarde finding Hugh and Merlin by the Brook | [201] |
| Hugh and Colonel Ferrers | [249] |
| Over the Jam Pots | [280] |
| "He gave me a lunge in quart" | [301] |