“Are the people dispersing? Where is your uncle?”
“He went home with the Colonel and his wife; he has quite lost his heart to Ermine.”
“And Una—did you leave her with Grace?”
“No, she trotted down hand in hand with his little lordship: promising to lead her uncle back.”
“My dear Alick, you don’t mean that you trust to that?”
“Why, hardly implicitly.”
“Is that the way you say so? They may be both over the cliffs. If you will just stay in the room with baby, I will go down and fetch them up.”
Alick very obediently held out his arms for his son, but when Rachel proceeded to take up her hat, he added, “You have run miles enough to-day. I am going down as soon as my uncle has had time to pay his visit in peace, without being hunted.”
“Does he know that?”
“The Colonel does, which comes to the same thing. Is not this boy just of the age that little Keith was when you gave him up?”