"I mean, there!" (pointing to the landscape).
"Just what I was trying to impress on Captain Herford——"
"Trying?" she echoed;—"surely, it took no trying."
"I am sorry to say it did—in fact, he steadily refused to see it."
She turned and looked, curiously, at Herford.
"All of which means, that he is out of sorts," she said. "Well, I decline to talk to a man who is out of humor on such a day. When you are willing to smile, and mean it, you may come back. Au revoir, sir, au revoir."
VIII THE MEANING OF A SHRUG
In the late afternoon, the Snowdens arrived from Montpelier, and, a little later, the Platers from Sotterly. They were young married people and added much to the company. Mrs. Snowden was a Leigh of Virginia, and Mrs. Plater was the only daughter and heiress of Colonel John Rousby, of Rousby Hall in Calvert County.