How clever of you to tackle Lady Grace! What did she say ?" "Neither she nor the Colonel made any difficulty about it at all," Scott said.

"I told them my sister was an invalid.

Lady Grace said that I must not keep you after ten, and I promised I wouldn't." His manner was kindly and quizzical, and Dinah's embarrassment began to pass.

But he discomfited her afresh as they walked across the road by saying, "You have made it up with my brother, I see." Dinah's cheeks burned again.

"Yes," she said, after a moment.