“I?” gasped Sir William, with a comical look of dismay.
She looked at him maliciously. “Yes, did you not?” she raised her eyebrows inquiringly, an innocent smile hovering about her mouth.
For a moment he sputtered, then with a grim smile he snarled sarcastically, “’Twill afford me great pleasure.”
With a wildly beating heart Lady Glencairn took Robert’s arm and started for the stairs, followed by the others.
Eppy sniffed suspiciously. “Oh, I understand now,” she observed spitefully with a meaning smile.
“I thought you would, dear,” flashed her ladyship mockingly, over her shoulder.
“Are you coming, madam?” demanded Sir William testily, offering his arm.
With an indignant clack of her tongue, Eppy haughtily brushed past him and swiftly mounted the stairs, leaving the disgruntled Sir William to follow at his leisure.