"That's all right! I'm awfully relieved. You'll like to go to your room now at once, won't you, and rest? I'll send you up some tea, and then you won't have to answer foolish questions."
"That would be most kind," he said gratefully. How very extraordinarily thoughtful this young heiress seemed to be.
Toney was saying to herself, "Then they won't meet till dinner-time, and she'll just be looking so beautiful that——"
"Gollywogs!" she exclaimed as she jumped down and Jim came running up, "There's visitors just come. Jim, take Mr. Weston in by the garden door, and tell them to take him to his room and give him tea."
In this way Toney smuggled in the genius and she herself stepped into the hall to find the two Hamiltons there taking their wraps off.
"I am glad you are come early for tea. I'm sure Aunt Dove will want some help about the Peerage. I'm no use at all. If a man has got all his legs and arms, and he has a nice face and lots of genius, I don't care how he came into the world."
Maud laughed, and as Jeanie walked towards the drawing-room Toney seized her.
"Maud, he's come, he's in his room, they won't meet till dinner."
"Oh, Toney!" gasped Maud, "but do you know anything about some lovely dresses that came for us this morning?"
Toney laughed.