The parts of the park nearest to the house already presented a busy aspect when Miss Fox-Seton passed through the gardens the following morning.

Tables were being put up, and baskets of bread and cake and groceries were being carried into the tent where the tea was to be prepared.

The workers looked interested and good-humoured; the men touched their hats as Emily appeared, and the women courtesied smilingly.

They had all discovered that she was amiable and to be relied on in her capacity of her ladyship's representative.
"She's a worker, that Miss Fox-Seton," one said to the other.

"I never seen one that was a lady fall to as she does.