I had such a good time and every one was lovely to me.
I did not know people could be so kind.

But it is good to get back home again to them all, and to you, and to all this." She waved her hand to the forest about her.
"And who are up here to-day, and what are you doing ?" inquired Mrs.
Waring-Gaunt.
"In the meantime I am preparing dinner," said the girl with a laugh.
"Dinner!" exclaimed Jack Romayne, who had meantime drawn near, determined to rehabilitate himself in the eyes of this girl as a man familiar with the decencies of polite society.

"Dinner! It smells so good and we are desperately hungry." "Yes," cried Mrs.Waring-Gaunt.

"My brother declared he was quite faint more than an hour ago, and now I am sure he is." "Fairly ravenous." "But I don't know," said the girl with serious anxiety on her face.
"You see, we have only pork and fried potatoes, and Nora just shot a chicken--only one--and they are always so hungry.

But we have plenty of bread and tea.