I thought it would have been a rest for her to get away for a week from the fag in London, but I am sorry now that we came down altogether.

I am a little worried about it, Frank." "Well, the season is drawing towards its end now, Lady Greendale, and if you can get a short time at home no doubt it will do you good.

I did not think that Bertha was looking well when I saw her yesterday." Frank danced a couple more dances, and then went to Lady Greendale and said: "Will you make my excuses to Bertha?
and tell her that, having shown myself here, so that it might not be thought that I was out of temper at my bad luck, I shall be off.

Indeed, I do not feel quite up to entering into the thing.

You can understand, dear Lady Greendale, that at present things are going rather hardly with me." She gave him a sympathetic look.