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Updated: May 23, 2025
Lady Grace's eyes rested upon her slim figure in its scarlet coat as she made reply. "These people these Studleys won't leave her alone. Or else she runs after them. I can't quite make out which. Probably the latter. Anyhow the sister who, I believe is what is termed slightly mental has asked her to go to tea in their private sitting-room. I have told her she must decline."
"I'll get things into good order when you're out of the way," she said to her on the last evening but one before the wedding-day, the evening on which the Studleys were to arrive at the Court. "You're just a born muddler, and you'll never be anything else, Lady Studley or no Lady Studley. Get along upstairs and dress yourself for your precious dinner-party, or your father will be ready first!
One of them a young soldier-cousin of the Studleys was singing a sentimental ditty at a piano to which no one was listening; and the hubbub was considerable. Dinah, admitted into the outer hall that was curtained off from the gay crowd, shrank nearer to Scott as the cheery tumult reached her. "Need we must we go in that way?" she whispered. There was a door on the right of the porch.
The family tie meant a good deal to us for the simple reason that we were practically the only Studleys left. My father had died six years before, my mother at my birth. Eustace was the head of the family, and he and Isabel had been all in all to each other.
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