"Luncheon is served, ma'am."
CHAPTER XXII.
"BETTER LO'ED YE CANNA BE."
After a substantial luncheon, to which they bring good appetites, given by their exhilarating outing in the frosty air, they cross the hall to the drawing-room, when Thomas opened the door to Miss Crew and Mr. Cobbe.
"Ah, here is our truant," said Mrs. Gower.
"Me!" laughed Cobbe, wishing her the compliments of the season.
Mr. Buckingham thought he detected a slight cloud of dissatisfaction pass over her face, even as she welcomed him.
"I have made fifteen calls already; the fair sex like to be remembered, Buckingham."
"Man is too selfish to forget what he could not do without, Cobbe."