"Never mind, we'll amuse ourselves somehow, I expect."
"Oh, I'm quite looking forward to it."
CHAPTER I
They kicked off from the summer-house end, and, after jockeying for the start a bit, the N.R. champion got going. He went very slowly but very surely. I watched anxiously for ten minutes, expecting my turn every moment. After a quarter of an hour I raised my hat and moved away.
"Shall we sit down?" I said to Miss Middleton.
"We shall be in the way if we sit down here, sha'n't we?"
"Outside that chalk line we're safe?"
"I—I suppose so."
We moved outside and sat down on the grass.
"I never even had a chalk line," I said mournfully.