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By supper, Macnish means, no doubt, that fourth meal so common in fashionable life, and not the usual third meal at six o'clock Those who never heard of a fourth, have no occasion for caution on this subject, except it be in regard to quantity. This third meal, however, even when it is eaten three hours before going to bed, should be light.
She sank back luxuriously, sighed, and began to wonder how she should find McDonald his ten pounds sterling. She need not have hurried, nor thrown to the wind those ten pounds that she had somehow to raise. On arriving at Beem-Tay she had given orders that any note addressed to Miss MacNish, and presented at the gate, should be brought at once to her.
And then," it came from him in a kind of eager, boyish outburst, "I shall ask her to marry me." Miss MacNish gasped and stepped backward into the fine and deep soil that gave the larkspur its inches. The color left her cheeks and returned upon the instant tenfold. And it was many moments before she could find a word to speak. Then she said in an injured and astonished tone: "Why?"
Of course, if you came upon her suddenly somewhere in the grounds, for instance she'd have to listen to what you had to say, and to answer you, I suppose. But to-day well I'd not try it to-day." "Why not?" asked McTavish. "Why," said Miss MacNish, "she caught cold in the car yesterday, and her poor nose is much too red for company." "Why do you all try to make her out such a bad lot?"
"They are," he said. "Good heavens!" exclaimed Miss MacNish. "When I meet her " McTavish began, and abruptly paused. "What?" Miss MacNish asked with some eagerness. "Oh, nothing; I'm so full of it that I almost betrayed my own confidence." "I hope that you aren't implying that I might prove indiscreet." "Oh, dear no!" said McTavish. "It had a look of it, then," said Miss MacNish tartly.
That made him furious, and he slammed the door when he left. So you knew all along?" "Yes Mrs. Nevis MacNish McTavish, I did; and when you had the faint spell in the chapel, I almost proposed then. I tell you, your voice and your face, and the way you walked oh, they did for this young man on the spot! Do you know how much hunger and longing and loving can be crowded into a few days? I do.
"I should be an American Scot if I married him. He tells me they are noted for their daring." While they were thus animatedly conversing, word came that Mr. McTavish had called in the hope of seeing Miss MacNish. "There," said Miss McTavish, "you see! Go down to him, Traquair, and be pleasant, until I come. Then vanish."
"I have heard of love at first sight " began Miss MacNish. But he interrupted eagerly. "You haven't ever experienced it, have you?" "Of course, I haven't," she exclaimed indignantly. "I've heard of it often. But I have never heard of love without any sight at all." "Love is blind," said McTavish. "Now, who's quibbling?"
"In my country," said McTavish, "when a girl refuses to marry a man they call it throwing him down, giving him the sack, or handing him a lemon." "Yours is an exceptional country," said Traquair. Miss MacNish appeared in the doorway behind them. "I'm sorry to have been so long," she said; "I had to give out the linen for luncheon."
"It's the truth," he said; "I will bet you ten pounds it's the truth." Miss MacNish looked at him indignantly, and in the midst of the look she sighed. "I don't bet," said she. McTavish lowered his glance until it rested upon his own highly polished brown boots. "Why are you looking at your boots?" asked Miss MacNish.
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