Off started the engine with a jerk which threw the ladies on to the seat opposite Kitty, who, with dismayed face and sinking spirits, had already recognized them as Lady Kitson and Lettice.
"She will be with us all the time, and everything is spoilt," she groaned inwardly.

She was intensely disappointed.

"Strangers would not have been so bad, or any one but those particular two." Pamela was sitting in the corner opposite her, and Dan was in the corner at the other end of her seat.

Lady Kitson and Lettice were at first too cross and too much shaken to notice any one; but presently, having recovered and arranged their packages, and settled down in their seats, they glanced about the compartment, and, with a look of not very pleased surprise, recognized their companions.
"Oh, how do you do, Dan ?" said Lady Kitson, and smiled quite affably on him, but to Kitty she vouchsafed only the merest acknowledgment.
Lettice blushed hotly when she saw Kitty, and gave her one of her broad, meaning smiles.
"How do you do ?" said Kitty very stiffly, and with no shadow of a smile.
"How is your poor little cousin, Dan ?" said Lady Kitson presently.
"I hope she is growing strong again after her two serious illnesses ?" "Yes, thank you," said Dan.

"She has gone away for change of air." "Oh, indeed.