“Oh what have you done?” cried Fanny.
“It was all your fault,” said Norman. “If you had let me alone it would not have happened.”
Fanny did feel very angry with him. What she might have done, it is difficult to say, had not Mrs Maclean entered the room.
“I can understand how it happened, and whose fault it was,” she observed. “Do not mind the broken dish, dear Fanny, I will send for the servant to take it away, and do you, young gentleman, go and get ready to accompany your mamma.”
Norman, who on seeing Mrs Maclean enter, fully expected to be punished, thought her kinder than he had supposed, and felt more inclined to like her than before. He accompanied Fanny without saying a word, and made no opposition when getting ready for the excursion.
Chapter Eleven.
The Picnic.
There were two small open carriages prepared for the expedition. The laird drove Mrs Maclean and Mrs Leslie in one, and Captain Vallery took charge of his wife and children in the other.