Collingwood started. "We are," he said.
"Wrong, my boy," said Lady Attwill again. "Peggy is going back."
"Back! Back where?"
"To London."
"She doesn't mean it?" Collingwood said, putting down his fork and looking straight at Lady Attwill.
She nodded at him, and he knew that what she said was true.
"There you are!" piped out in Lord Ellerdine's voice. "I knew it; I felt it in my bones all the time I was in that beastly train. Peggy's got the hump. You have spoilt the whole show, Colling. I can't eat any more."
He pushed his chair away from the table with a perplexed and angry face, and began to walk up and down the room.
"Hang it!" Collingwood said, "is this the first time that anyone got on the wrong train?"
"No, it is not," Ellerdine answered shortly. "But it is the first time it has happened to Peggy. Anybody but Peggy."