BOY AND GIRL It was during those early days that Mary made the acquaintance of Robin Drummond.

She had a comfortless feeling afterwards about the meeting; but it was not because of Sir Robin or anything he did: he was always a kind boy in her memory of him.

It was because of his mother, Lady Drummond.

Mary knew from Lady Anne, who always thought aloud, that Lady Drummond made a good many people feel uncomfortable.
They had driven out all the way from the city to the Court, the big house on its wide plain below the mountains.

It was a long drive--quite twenty miles there and back--and Jennings, who liked to have a good deal of his time to himself, had been rather cross about it.