"Tell Lady Kingsland I shall meet her at dinner." He rode away as he spoke, with the sudden consciousness that it was the first time he and that devoted mother had ever clashed.

Thinking of her, he thought of her favorite.
"She wants to read me a tirade, I suppose, about her pet, Lady Louise," he said to himself.

"They would badger me into marrying her if they could.

I never cared two straws for the daughter of Earl Carteret; she is frightfully _passee_, and she's three years older than I am.

I am glad I did not commit myself to please my mother." Sir Everard reached Hunsden Hall in time for luncheon.