That Baggs had boiled his oatmeal porridge in his bedroom, and his lordship had eaten it as he was dressing.
It may be asked, what was the maid about not to tell her.
The fact is, that ladies'-maids are only numb hands in all that relates to hunting, and though Juliana knew that his lordship was up, she thought he had gone to have his hunt before breakfast, just as the young gentlemen in the last place she lived in used to go and have a bathe.
[Illustration] Baggs, we may add, was a married man, and Juliana and he had not had much conversation..