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Newthorpe noticed this, and, laying the book aside, made one or two inquiries about the company of the evening. She replied briefly, then, after hesitation, asked: 'Do you very much want to go to the Pilkingtons', father? He regarded her with amazement. 'I? Since when have I had a passionate desire to camp in strangers' houses and eat strange flesh?
'We are going first of all to the Pilkingtons', in Warwickshire, said Annabel, talking with Mrs. Ormonde at the latter's hotel in the last week of July. 'Mr. Lanyard the poet, you know will be there; I am curious to see him. Father remembers him a 'scrubby starveling' to use his phrase a reviewer of novels for some literary paper. He has just married Lady Emily Quell you heard of it?
'I only say it because you ask me to, sweet-and-twenty. In truth I feel very comfortable, but I shall be far more sure of remaining so at Eastbourne than at the Pilkingtons'. 'Eastbourne, you think? 'Nay, as you please, Bell. 'Yes, Eastbourne again. She came to her father and took his hands. 'I'm tired, tired, tired of it all, dear; tired and weary unutterably!
'So you're going to the Pilkingtons', Paula said, when she had fluttered about a good deal. 'No. We have changed our minds. We go back to Eastbourne. 'Ah! How's that, Bell? 'We are a little tired of society, and father needs quietness again. Where do you go? 'To Scotland, with the Scalpers. Lord Glenroich is going down with us. He's promised to teach me to shoot.
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