John laughed and shrugged his shoulders. "Miss Sarah is a star with many satellites. She raised my hopes, however, by appearing to have a few smiles to spare for Peter."
"And she must have got him the invitation to Tintern Castle," said
Lady Mary. "That is why he went up to Scotland."
"I see."
"Then she got him another invitation, I suppose, for he went to the next house she stayed at; and to a third place for some yachting."
"What did Lady Tintern say?"
"That's just it. Sarah is in Lady Tintern's black books just now. She is furious with her, Mrs. Hewel tells me, because she has refused Lord Avonwick."
"Hum!" said John. "He has forty thousand a year."
"I don't think money would tempt Sarah to marry a man she did not love," said Lady Mary, reproachfully. "There was Mr. Van Graaf, the African millionaire. She wouldn't look at him, and he offered to settle untold sums upon her."
"Did he? What a brute!"
"Why?"