Lottie appeared with a crimson face, bearing a little ostentatious silver plate with a card.

Mrs.Slade adjusted her lorgnette, looked at the card, and appeared to hesitate for a second.

Then a look of calm determination overspread her face.

She whispered to Lottie, and presently appeared a young man in clerical costume, moving between the seated groups of ladies with an air not so much of embarrassment as of weary patience, as if he had expected something like this to happen, and it had happened.
Mrs.Slade motioned to a chair near her, which Lottie had placed, and the young man sat down..