CHAPTER SIXAfter that things were easy. The presence of Lady Honoria and a clergyman laid a cloak of respectability over the party so completely, that some young people were inclined to refuse their invitations, and had to have the truth of the matter hurriedly explained to them.
In no time at all a lively young party was assembled.
When Rowena came to select her guests, she found she already had a mental list of girls who would benefit from this kind of trip. It was almost as though some secret part of her mind had been preparing for some time.
First she chose the Hon. Margaret Fleming, whom she liked and pitied. Margaret had a very pushy mother who was determined she should make an important marriage, and then be able to introduce her two younger sisters to well-born men.
But Margare
