Rooke--you saw him at the station at Liverpool Street--will, if he be available, go over to bring the whole body here.

He has offered to do it if I should wish.

And, by the way, I think it will be well, when the time comes for their departure, if not only the lassies, but Lachlan and Sandy's Mary, too, will call him _Mister_ Rooke.

He is a very important person indeed here.

He is, in fact, a sort of Master of the Castle, and though he is very self-suppressing, is a man of rarely fine qualities.