He was a boy, and all the ladies were girls.

Perhaps the lady he saw most frequently was Mrs.Jerry's stepdaughter.

Lady Pippinworth was a friend of Lady Rintoul, and had several times visited her at the Spittal, but that was not the sole reason why Tommy so frequently drank tea with her.

They had met first at a country house, where, one night after the ladies had retired to rest, Lady Pippinworth came stealing into the smoking-room with the tidings that there were burglars in the house.

As she approached her room she had heard whispers, and then, her door being ajar, she had peeped upon the miscreants.