I can't imagine, though, who told you I was anything of a rider ?" To tell the truth, Henry labored under the same difficulty; he did not wish to introduce Katharine's name, and, therefore, he replied vaguely that he had always heard that Rodney was a great rider.

In truth, he had heard very little about him, one way or another, accepting him as a figure often to be found in the background at his aunt's house, and inevitably, though inexplicably, engaged to his cousin.
"I don't care much for shooting," Rodney continued; "but one has to do it, unless one wants to be altogether out of things.

I dare say there's some very pretty country round here.

I stayed once at Bolham Hall.

Young Cranthorpe was up with you, wasn't he?
He married old Lord Bolham's daughter.