Emily Fox-Seton cast about for a suitable remark to make, if he should chance to stop to speak to her.

She consoled herself with the thought that there were things she really _wanted_ to say about the beauty of the gardens, and certain clumps of heavenly-blue campanulas, which seemed made a feature of in the herbaceous borders.

It was so much nicer not to be obliged to invent observations.

But his lordship did not stop to speak to her.

He was interested in his roses (which, she heard afterward, were to be sent to town to an invalid friend), and as she drew near, he turned aside to speak to the gardener.