The ladies would be down in a few moments.
Keith did not know that this change in bearing was due to the pleasure expressed above-stairs by a certain young lady who had flatly refused to accept her mother's suggestion that they send word they were not at home.
Alice Yorke was not in a very contented frame of mind that day.

For some time she had been trying to make up her mind on a subject of grave importance to her, and she had not found it easy to do.

Many questions confronted her.

Curiously, Keith himself had played a part in the matter.

Strangely enough, she was thinking of him at the very time his card was brought up.