Will he, I wonder?
And would she?
Oh, Lord! what a nuisance they are! By Jove! I should like to see Kate's face if she spots us." A few minutes later the strange and unedifying sight of Lady Claudia Territon and Mr.Lane, mounted on a very rickety old "sociable," presented itself to the gaping gaze of several laborers in the park.
Claudia was in her most boisterous spirits; Eugene, by one of the quick transitions of his nature, was hardly less elate.

Up-hill they toiled and down-hill they raced, getting, as the manner of "cyclists" is, very warm and rather oily.

But retribution lagged not.

Down a steep hill they came, round a sharp turn they went, and, alas, over into a ditch they fell.

This was bad enough, but in the calm seclusion of a garden seat, perched on a knoll just above them, the sinners, as they rose, dirty but unhurt, beheld Miss Bernard! For a moment all was consternation.