So one morning she said to the groom: "Doesn't Kenneth usually ride Nora ?" "Yes, Miss," answered the man.
"Then I'd better take Sam this morning," she decided.
But the groom demurred.
"You won't like Sam, Miss," he said, "and he gets ugly at times and acts bad.

Master Kenneth won't use Nora today, I'm sure." She hesitated.
"I think I'll ask him," said she, after a moment, and turned away into the garden, anxious to have this plausible opportunity to speak to the lonely boy..