On Saturday"-- it was three days hence--"I go back to Rivenoak; I've enough of London; I want to be quiet.

You are to come down with us.

You've business at Hollingford on the 20th, and you ought to see more of the Hollingford people." Whatever Lady Ogram had proposed (or rather dictated) Dyce would have agreed to.

He was under the authority of her eye and voice.

The prospect of being down at Rivenoak, and there, of necessity, living in daily communication with May Tomalin, helped him to disregard the other features of his position.