"Don't you trouble," said that wonderful vibrating voice, "we shall find it not so bad as you think. You have been sadly frightened, but it will all come right. Do you live near here?"
"About three miles."
"Will you tell me your name?"
"Elaine Brabourne."
"Mine is Mabel Wynch-Frère, and that is my brother, Claud Cranmer."
"Taking my name in vain, Mab?" asked the Honorable Claud, half turning round.
"Claud, this young lady's name is Brabourne," said Lady Mabel, in her gracious way.
Claud lifted his hat and bowed, as if it were a formal introduction.
"Any relation of poor Val's, I wonder?" he said.
"Who was Val?"