She paused with her hand on it, and said: "I am sorry for you two; you have been miserably brought up!" There was a silence; then Derek said quietly: "Thank you; we shall remember that insult to our people.

Don't ring, please; we're going." In a silence if anything more profound than that of their approach, the two young people retired down the drive.

They had not yet learned--most difficult of lessons--how to believe that people could in their bones differ from them.

It had always seemed to them that if only they had a chance of putting directly what they thought, the other side must at heart agree, and only go on saying they didn't out of mere self-interest.

They came away, therefore, from this encounter with the enemy a little dazed by the discovery that Lady Malloring in her bones believed that she was right.