But I assure you I am not so frivolous as you think; I have been going out distributing tracts lately with Mrs.Sourby." "Indeed, and last winter I know you were attending lectures on cookery, and wanted to become a lecturer yourself." "Yes, and only for something that happened, I forget what, I might now be a useful member of society.

But chance does so rule one's affairs.

At present it is Fate's decree that I shall spend the next few months at Pontresina." Mr.Enderby made a gesture as if to say that he would remonstrate no more, and went off to play lawn tennis with his little girls.

Mrs.
Rushton rose from her seat, yawned, and declared to Mrs.Enderby that it was six o'clock and quite time for her to return towards home, as she had a drive of two hours before her.
Shortly afterwards she was rolling along the avenue in her carriage, and through the village, and out by one of the roads towards the open country.
Now little Hetty Gray ought to have been in her bed by this time, or getting ready for it; but she was, as Mrs.Kane told Mrs.Ford, a very wild little girl, though sharp; and while Mrs.Kane was busy giving her husband his supper Hetty had escaped from the cottage once more, and had skipped away from the village to have another little ramble by herself before the pretty green woods should begin to darken, and the moon to come up behind the trees.
Hetty had filled her lap with dog-roses out of the hedges, and wishing to arrange them in a bunch which she could carry in her hand, she sat down in the middle of the road and became absorbed in her work.
Near where she sat there was a sharp turning in the road, and Hetty was so busy that she did not hear the sound of a carriage coming quite near her.

Suddenly the horses turned the corner.