"Good-bye."
He waited thoughtfully outside the College for Lady Rossiter, nor did the entertainment of afternoon tea prolong itself.
She came out, followed by Mark Easter.
"Will you have a lift, Mark?"
"Thank you, I've got one or two things to finish here."
Julian, being well aware that at this Edna was endeavouring to exchange with him a sudden, meaning glance, became instantly absorbed in the mechanism of the car.
"Mark, don't do that. Do come back with us now," said Lady Rossiter earnestly, and irresistibly and quite involuntarily reminding Sir Julian of the heroine of a certain type of fiction, pleading at the door of the public-house, "Bill, come home with me now."
He stifled the ribald association and started the engine.
"You'll walk back then, later?"
"Come back with us, Mark," repeated Lady Rossiter.