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Updated: June 12, 2025
Entering the drawing-room, they found Major Shirley with his wife and daughter, Ralph and Dot Waring, and the doctor, assembled with their host and hostess. Mrs. Damer glanced at the clock after greeting them. "The Errols are late." Anne chanced to be speaking to Dot at the moment, and the girl's magic change of countenance called her attention to the words.
He began to speak at once in quick, staccato tones, with which she was utterly unfamiliar. "So you think you are going to escape me, do you? But you won't! No, not for all the Errols in the world!" She did not answer him. There was something so utterly unusual in this abrupt visitation that she knew not how to cope with it. But he scarcely waited for an answer.
This year she spent the day in the peaceful atmosphere of Baronmead, driving home at length, through the frosty starlight, in the Errols' car.
He turned from her to the baby sprawling on the rug at his feet, and lifted the youngster to his knee. "So this is the pride of the Errols now," he said. The baby stared up at him with serious eyes, and very deliberately and intently Nap stared back. "What is his name, Dot?" he asked at length. "Lucas Napoleon," she said. "Good heavens!" he ejaculated. "What an unholy combination!
"I always enjoy seeing you trying to teach the pride of the Errols not to make a fool of himself. It's a gigantic undertaking, isn't it? Let me know if you require any assistance." He placed the cigarette between his lips and felt for some matches. "I am going to turn my attention to you now," Lucas rejoined in his tired voice. "Bertie, old chap, go and dress, will you?
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