Oh, lame and impotent conclusion! Just before luncheon she chanced to look through a window, and to see the head gamekeeper crossing the park, and coming to the house.

Now this was the very man she wanted to speak to.

The sudden temptation surprised her out of her timidity.

She rang the bell again, and sent for the man.
That Colossus wondered in his mind, and felt uneasy at an invitation so novel.

However, he clattered into the morning-room, in his velveteen coat, and leathern gaiters up to his thigh, pulled his front hair, bobbed his head, and then stood firm in body as was he of Rhodes, but in mind much abashed at finding himself in her ladyship's presence.
The lady, however, did not prove so very terrible.