When she had first arrived, Errington, in receiving her, had seriously apologized for not having some lady to meet her, but she seemed not to understand his meaning.

Her naive smile and frankly uplifted eyes put all his suddenly conceived notions of social stiffness to flight.
"Why should a lady come ?" she asked sweetly.

"It is not necessary?
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." "Of course it isn't!" said Lorimer promptly and delightedly.