Miss Vance led her party slowly through Scotland and down again to London.

Mrs.Waldeaux went with them.

The girls secretly laughed together at her fine indomitable politeness, and her violent passion for the Stuarts, and hate of the Roundheads.

But Mr.Perry was bored by her.
"What is it to us," he said, "that Queen Mary paddled over this lake, or Cromwell's soldiers whitewashed that fresco?
Give me a clean, new American church, anyhow, before all of your mouldy, tomby cathedrals.
These things are so many cancelled cheques to me.

I have nothing to pay on them.