“I am saying this because there is somebody here who has never stayed at Mere before, but doubtless her uncle had told her what to expect.”
“I have hardly had time,” Sir Hugo protested, “so you tell her, Alstone. It comes much better from you.”
'“Very well,” the Duke concurred and then turned to Lorena to say,
“As everybody else knows, there is tennis, croquet, golf, horses to ride if you prefer and punts on the lake, although I beg you not to trust yourself to Fane, who got stuck in the mud last time he attempted to squire a lovely lady.”
“That was his story!” somebody piped up, laughing. “And Miss Benson is too young to be allowed in a punt alone with Kelvin.”
There was more laughter and the Duke thought that Lorena looked a little shy and he went on,
“There are not only horses in
