7/54 'Catherine, I suppose, home from Whinborough.' Rose got up and peered through the rhododendron bushes at the top of the wall which shut them off from the road. Catherine driving at a foot's pace, and the unknown walking beside her. Oh, I see, of course--Mr.Elsmere. He will come in to tea, so I'll go for a cup. It is his duty to call on us to-day.' When Rose came back in the wake of her mother, Catherine and Robert Elsmere were coming up the drive. |