Miss Erroll is naturally worried over him.

But I wonder why she did not come to me herself instead of sending you as her errant ambassador ?" "Miss Erroll did not send me," he said, flushing up.

And, looking steadily into the smiling doll's face confronting him, he knew again that he had failed.
"I am not inclined to be very much flattered after all," said Rosamund.
"You should have come on your own errand, Captain Selwyn, if you expected a woman to listen to you.

Did you not know that ?" "It is not a question of errands or of flattery," he said wearily; "I thought you might care to influence a boy who is headed for serious trouble--that is all, Mrs.Fane." She smiled: "Come to me on your _own_ errand--for Gerald's sake, for anybody's sake--for your own, preferably, and I'll listen.

But don't come to me on another woman's errands, for I won't listen--even to you." "I _have_ come on my own errand!" he repeated coldly.