When she had been taken to her room, which was next to Elsie's, and her trunks had been brought up, it was time to go to dejeuner, and Tinker conducted her to the restaurant.

They found Sir Tancred and Lord Crosland already at table; they rose at the sight of Dorothy, and Tinker introduced them to her gravely.

Sir Tancred was naturally surprised at being suddenly confronted by a startling vision of beauty, when he had expected an ordinary young fresh-coloured, good-natured Englishwoman.

But for all the change worked in his face by that surprise he might have been confronted by a vision of corkscrew curls.

Lord Crosland, however, so far forgot the proper dignity of a peer as to kick Tinker gently under the table.