'So you think no one can be neighbourly except for electioneering!
O Mark, I must take you in hand.'

'Meantime the host is collecting. I abscond. Which is the least
showy part of the establishment?'

'I recommend the coal cellar--'and, as he went off--'poor boy, he is
a dear good fellow, but how little he knows how to be laughed at!'





CHAPTER IV.
A NAME.




'Sigh no more lady, lady sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever,
One foot on sea and one on land--
To one thing constant never.'--Old Ballad.


'So you have ventured out again,' said Lady Kirkaldy, as her nephew
strolled up to her afternoon tea-table under a great cedar tree:

'The coast being clear, and only distant shouts being heard in the
ravine--