'You did not hear him, did you? You were not there,' said the Fräulein.
'I was not there, but I heard him. I—I was sitting on the bank among the pine trees.'
'Why did you not come and sit with us? It would have been more ladylike than to hide yourself behind the trees.'
Mary blushed crimson.
'I had been in the kennels with Maulevrier; I was not fit to be seen,' she said.
'Hardly a ladylike admission,' replied the Fräulein, who felt that with Lady Mary her chief duty was to reprove.