"Thank you very much," he said. "Mother, do send the port round. What an inhospitable woman!"
Mrs. Assheton rose.
"I will leave you to be more hospitable than me, then, dear," she said.
"Shall we go, Madge? Indeed, I am afraid you must, if you are to catch the train to Falmer."
Madge Templeton got up with her hostess, and the two men rose too. She had been sitting next Morris, and the boy looked at her eagerly.
"It's too bad, your having to go," he said. "But do you think I may come over to-morrow, in the afternoon some time, and see you and Lady Templeton?"
Madge paused a moment.
"I am so sorry," she said, "but we shall be away all day. We shan't be back till quite late."
"Oh, what a bore," said he, "and I leave again on Friday. Do let me come and see you off then."
But Mrs. Assheton interposed.