"Well, I can tell you a good deal about that," she said. "Ah!--another
time!"
For the door opened, and in came a group of guests, with a gush of talk
and a rustling of silks and satins.
* * * * *
Everybody was gathered; dinner had been announced; and the white-haired
and gouty Lord Grosville was in a state of seething impatience that not
even the mild-voiced Dean of the neighboring cathedral, engaged in
complimenting him on his speech at the Diocesan Conference, could
restrain.
"Adelina, need we wait any longer?" said the master of the house,
turning an angry eye upon his wife.
"Certainly not--she has had ample time," said Lady Grosville, and rang
the bell beside her.
Suddenly there was a whirlwind of noise in the hall, the angry barking
of a small dog, the sound of a girl's voice laughing and scolding, the
swish of silk skirts. A scandalized butler, obeying Lady Grosville's
summons, threw the door open, and in burst Lady Kitty.
"Oh! I'm so sorry," said the new-comer, in a tone of despair. "But I
couldn't leave him up-stairs, Aunt Lina! He'd eaten one of my shoes, and
begun upon the other.
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