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"There are the Haldens and the Berkleys and Tattans," she mused. "They're all supplied. Perhaps someone will leave and then she can get their place. Maybe Hannah Ann will have her help sometimes, we can't afford to have anyone regularly, you know." Miss Jinny rose abruptly, and putting away her things, began preparations for tea.
She heard her sister-in-law saying: "We Paiges and Berkleys are kin to the Ormonds and the Earls of Ossory. The Estcourts, the Paiges, the Craigs, the Lents, the Berkleys, intermarried a hundred years ago. . . . My grandmother knew yours, but the North is very strange in such matters. . . . Why did you never before come?"
"I have honoured little else in the world," he said. They looked at one another for a moment; then her quick smile broke out. "I have an album. There are some Paiges, Ormonds, and Berkleys in it " Ailsa came forward slowly. "Shall I look for it, Celia?" "No, Honey-bell."
"June," she said, and a shy smile came through her tears. "June," he finished with a boyish laugh. "Good-by sir." "You haven't told me your name." "I suppose you know my brothers, sir, the Berkleys." "I should say so," and Hale held out his hand. "You're Bob?" "Yes, sir." "I knew you were coming, and I'm mighty glad to see you.
"Knows what?" "Knows what you did to my mother?" "Some people among the families immediately concerned," replied Colonel Arran coolly. "Who are they?" "Your mother's relatives, the Paiges, the Berkleys my family, the Arrans, the Lents " "What Lents?" interrupted the young man looking up sharply. "They live in Brooklyn. There's a brother and a sister, orphans; and an uncle. Captain Josiah Lent."
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