"I should love it," said Pam, with two sudden dimples dancing into her cheeks.
"We haven't been doing our duty by you," went on Lady Kitty. "It would be an everlasting disgrace to us if you went home without seeing the sights."
"But won't it be a great bother for you?"
"On the contrary. I have long desired to see the Tower."
"You don't mean to say you never have?" said Pamela, staring.
"Well, you know, the people in a place never see the sights of it, unless they are obliged to by an amiable visitor."
"You will have such gay times with Kitty, to-morrow," said Lady Jane, with the faintest suggestion of enmity underlying the smooth words, "that you will not mind, I hope, having only my society for to-night?"
"Is Lady Kitty going out?" asked Pamela, and a cloud fell on her face.
"She must," said Lady Jane shortly. "We shall have some music," she went on, "and afterwards you must get to bed early to prepare for a tiring day to-morrow. So we shall not find the evening too long without Kitty."
Yet after dinner, when Lady Kitty, radiant, in her smartest gown, floated into the drawing-room and found Pamela alone, it was not the face of one who anticipated a pleasant evening that she beheld.