"_Tristram_ and _Isolt_! How splendid!" "And I shall be _Brangaine_, and give the love potion," Lady Anningford went on.

"Although it does not come into the 'Idylls of the King,' it should do so.

It is just because Tennyson was so fearfully, respectably Early Victorian! I have been looking all the real thing up in the 'Morte d' Arthur' in the library, and in the beautiful edition of 'Tristram and Yseult' in Ethelrida's room." "How perfectly enchanting!" cried Lady Betty.

"I must be the _Lady of the Lake_--it is much the most dramatic part.

And let us get the big sword out of the armory for _Excalibur_! I can have it, and brandish it as I enter the room." "Oh, nonsense, Betty darling!" Ethelrida said.