He's an unpleasant beggar." A few days later Mrs.Brent, returning from a call on Mrs.Charley Jenkins, was passed by a carriage whose liveries she recognised half way up the village street.

It was the carriage from Dunholm Castle.

Lord and Lady Dunholm and Lord Westholt sat in it.

They were, of course, going to call at the Court.

Miss Vanderpoel was beginning to draw people.