her whether they might not as well go home at once � � why inquired who was stooping to tie her and consequently did not perceive s uneasiness � we are very wet � and your cold may be made worse you know i think we might as well go we have been et you mean we are not wet now � and my cold is quite gone oh i think we had better stay � it will seem so odd to go before tea very well said who thought it might seem odd and also dreaded mr s offering to escort them home the miss brother richard who had been expected the night before had arrived at the in their absence and was coming to t ea he presently entered with hie sam good i thought would be here said he to after looking round the room he was here in the � he went home with a headache did he if i had known that i would have looked in on him � i would rather have spent a quiet half hour with him than have come into this noise and bustle for i feel rather stupid this evening myself what an uproar the miss are making with mr did yo have any champagne to day every body seems in tip top spirits i am sure i am not no you look pale and tired ten to one you have increased your cold by getting very warm with walking in the sun in the first place and then sitting on wet grass or standing under a tree where there is always sure to be a draught enough to give half of the party don t put such shocking things into my head well i hope nothing will come of it how i feel this evening mr is with now i suppose he ll the tour of the room i don t think so much of his manners now i have seen is a man of the world but is a man of birth and breeding good heavens what a laugh brown has not much breeding to spare in that quarter i think people may come from london and yet not abound in gen i wonder whereabouts that is they are always talking of a good way from the west end i should fancy why what makes you so bitter to night am i bitter well then to please you i ll try to be sweet what a sweet miss holland has on you ought to offer your services to her at the tea table no no there are men enough to do that without me i shall pretend not to see i am wanted we are such a large party that there are not enough chairs and if i were to leave my place mr would whip it up before i could say jack robinson he has been shifting from one foot to another these ten minutes i dare say he is tired with his walk his walk i what a walk not half so far as i have been to day all over to on foot and nobody at home when i got there if that was not enough to � ha ha ha � what are you laughing at i have found out what makes you so surly i surly colouring if i am surly it is because i am tired and vexed with walking five miles in the sun and five miles back again in the rain and all for nothing there i have caught miss holland s eye now she to i must go what a pity when you and i were so pleasantly talking off our weariness to each other lost his place as he had anticipated and seemed resigned to the change in her companions a noisy tea was succeeded by a more noisy game of for the sake of the young goods though it was carried on with equal spirit by many of the grown up members of the party farmer holland loved to promote merriment and and delighted him by the with which they kept up the game towards nine o clock found himself walking home between his sisters well said he i hope you and mr have been talking nonsense to each other s satisfaction now don t be ill humoured people do not vol i oat to make themselves disagreeable to their hosts and do they why only i think there was rather too of it to night � of what of noise and and � oh i know what else you could call holland s ofi with mr s hat and his running her oh there i with you i thought you were alluding to me and even you � began and even then said appearing not to hear him it was holland s and poor mr ran after his hat very unwillingly it is my opinion said abruptly that grown people ought never to play at children s games they are sure to go too or else look awkward as did tonight when it was her turn to their mirth can never be like the mirth of children ignorance of decorum and wilful forgetfulness of it are two very different things very different repeated and i am sure you wished more than once that my mother had been of the party well said with a sigh altogether it has been a pleasant day i should not have thought a rainy could have been very delightful oh but my dear the rain did not begin till dinner was quite over and even then we amused ourselves very well under the trees how by telling stories mr invented a most beautiful tale i on the spur of the moment i and what do you think i he plays the i i repeated he with emphasis that has lowered him ten per cent in my opinion how ridiculous how 