KAU FAI At the top of the nunnery stairs, Rudolph met them with awkward ceremony, and with that smiling air of encouragement which a nurse might use in trying cheerfully to deceive a sick man.

Heywood laughed, without mercy, at this pious fraud.
"Hallo, you Red-Bristled Ghost!" he cried.

"We came early--straight from our walk.

Are the rest coming?
And did my cook arrive to help yours ?" Their host, carried by assault, at once became less mournful.
"The cook is here," he replied, "by the kitchen-sounds.

They disagree, I think.