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Well, we will talk no more of this let us think of the nice little pleasure we have in store our stay at Knollsea. There we will be as free as the wind. And when we are down there, I can drive across to Corvsgate Castle if I wish to attend the Imperial Association meeting, and nobody will know where I came from. Knollsea is not more than five miles from the Castle, I think.

'You will come with your sister to see us before you leave? he said. 'We have tea at six. 'We shall have left Melchester before that time. I am now only waiting for the train. 'You two have not come all the way from Knollsea alone? 'Part of the way, said Ethelberta evasively. 'And going back alone? 'No. Only for the last five miles.

Well, here we are at the tenth milestone. I will walk the remainder of the distance to Knollsea, as there is ample time for meeting the last steamboat. When the man was gone Christopher proceeded slowly on foot down the hill, and reached that part of the highway at which he had stopped in the cold November breeze waiting for a woman who never came.

By this time Sol and the Honourable Edgar Mountclere had gone far on their journey into Wessex. Enckworth Court, Mountclere's destination, though several miles from Knollsea, was most easily accessible by the same route as that to the village, the latter being the place for which Sol was bound.

Breezes the freshest that could blow without verging on keenness flew over the quivering deeps and shallows; and the sunbeams pierced every detail of barrow, path and rabbit-run upon the lofty convexity of down and waste which shut in Knollsea from the world to the west.

The incident brought Neigh still further from his retirement, and she learnt that he was one of a yachting party which had put in at Knollsea that morning; she was greatly relieved to find that he was just now on his way to London, whence he would probably proceed on his journey abroad.

'Now, Picotee, she continued, 'we shall have to receive him, and make the most of him, for I have altered my plans since I was last in Knollsea. 'Altered them again? What are you going to be now not a poor person after all? 'Indeed not. And so I turn and turn. Can you imagine what Lord Mountclere is coming for? But don't say what you think.

Doncastle's dinner-party, and Lord Mountclere, on learning that she was to be at Knollsea, had recommended her attendance at some, if not all of the meetings, as a desirable and exhilarating change after her laborious season's work in town.

Not wishing to enter Knollsea till the evening shades were falling, she still walked amid the ruins, examining more leisurely some points which the stress of keeping herself companionable would not allow her to attend to while the assemblage was present.

Fresh horses were immediately called for, and while they were being put in the two travellers walked up and down. 'It is now a quarter to seven o'clock, said Mountclere; 'and the question arises, shall I go on to Knollsea, or branch off at Corvsgate Castle for Enckworth? I think the best plan will be to drive first to Enckworth, set me down, and then get him to take you on at once to Knollsea.