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They drove out into the country through mists like lakes, and found themselves part of a procession of twinkling carriage-lights, and cigar sparks shining above open vehicles, winding along the levels like a canoe fete on the water. In the entrance hall of the club-house they encountered Miss Hinsdale, very handsome, large, and dark, elaborately beaming and bending toward them warmly.
Hogarth saw the carriage-lights at the field's edge, bore her thither, laid her with care on the cushions, kissed her hand: and this act Frankl saw with incredulity of his own eyes. As he approached, Hogarth walked away. Frankl mastered his voice to say blandly in Spanish: "Well, how did you get through, sweet child? Who was that man ? But stay: where are those two fools?"
'Yes. And he mentioned the retreating carriage-lights, and how he was assured by Lady Grebe that no guest had departed. 'Surely that was it! said the father. 'But she's not gone alone, d'ye know! 'Ah who is the young man? 'I can on'y guess. My worst fear is my most likely guess. I'll say no more. I thought yet I would not believe it possible that you was the sinner. Would that you had been!
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