"This is the favourite drive of all the lovers hereabouts," he said, "and there is a spice of danger in it which makes it more romantic.

Once, not very long ago, a couple of young people, too absorbed in their love-making to watch their horse, drove off the bank.

Luckily for them they fell into the branches of one of these overhanging trees, while the horse and car went plunging into the water.

There they swung, holding each other hand in hand, making a pretty and pathetic tableau, till their cries brought some anglers in a boat on the river to the rescue." We spoke of Lady Louisa, and of the watch of Waterloo.

"That watch had a wonderful escape a few years ago," said Mr.Seigne.
Lady Louisa, it seems, had a confidential butler whom she most implicitly trusted.