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Halwyn was there and young Dormer and Layton they are all in the army. The cannon balls would be for them as well as for the Tommies of their regiments. They are spirited lads who wouldn't slink behind. They'd face things." Feather had already forgotten her moment's shock in another thought. "And they were invited to meet Robin! Did they dance with her? Did she dance much?
You dance like a fairy. You won't be asked to do anything more." "The Duchess," reflected Robin aloud slowly, "would not let me come downstairs if she did not know that people would be kind." "Lady Kathryn and Lord Halwyn are coming. They are her own grandchildren," Dowie said. "How did you know that?" Robin inquired. Robin's colour began to come back.
"Lady Kathryn Lord Halwyn " Lady Kathryn was the Duchess' young granddaughter, Lord Halwyn was her extremely good-looking grandson who was in the army. The Duchess understood what the heroic look had meant, and her respect for it was great.
"It is quite right. 'Frightfully right, George would say. George will sit near you at dinner. He is my grandson Lord Halwyn you know, and you will no doubt frequently hear him say things are 'frightfully' something or other during the evening.
There had come to them the news of death day after day lads they knew and had seen laughing a few weeks before Halwyn, Meredith, Jack or Harry or Phil. A false rumour of a sudden order to the Front and they had stood and gazed into each other's eyes in a fateful hour. Robin did not know of the picture her disjointed, sobbed-forth sentences and words made clear.
In Robin's wide eyes was helpless horror and Donal knew too well what she was going to say. "Lord Halwyn is killed!" she gasped out. "And four of his friends! We all danced the tango together and that new kicking step!" She began to sob piteously.
A small dinner and a small dance and George and Kathryn may be the beginning of an interesting experiment." The Duchess was rarely mistaken. The experiment was interesting. For George Lord Halwyn it held a certain element of disaster. It was he who danced with Robin first. He had heard of the girl who was a sort of sublimated companion to his grandmother. He had encountered companions before.
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