Alec, go and tell Mr.Grant, the overseer, to keep better order outside.

In the meantime let everybody get ready for the Virginia reel; supper will be served in a few minutes.

Will you young gentlemen please choose your partners, and will some one of you kindly ask the music to start up ?" Slowly, and quite as if he had been called to the front door to welcome some belated guest, he walked the length of the room preceded by Alec, who, agonized at his master's measured delay, had forged ahead to open the door.

This closed and they out of sight, the two hurried down the path.
Willits lay flat on the ground, one arm stretched above his head.

He had measured his full length, the weight of his shoulder breaking some flower-pots as he fell.