CHAPTER XX

A LESSON IN PICQUET

Lord Dreever, meanwhile, having left the waterside, lighted a cigarette, and proceeded to make a reflective tour of the grounds. He felt aggrieved with the world. Molly's desertion in the canoe with Jimmy did not trouble him: he had other sorrows. One is never at one's best and sunniest when one has been forced by a ruthless uncle into abandoning the girl one loves and becoming engaged to another, to whom one is indifferent. Something of a jaundiced tinge stains one's outlook on life in such circumstances. Moreover, Lord Dreever was not by nature an introspective young man, but, examining his position as he walked along, he found himself wondering whether it was not a little unheroic. He came to the conclusion that perhaps it was. Of course, Uncle Thomas could make it deucedly unpleasant for him if he kicked. That was the trouble. If only he had even--say, a couple of thousands a year of his own--he might make a fight for it. But, dash it, Uncle Tom could cut off supplies to such a frightful extent, if there was trouble, that he would have to go on living at Dreever indefinitely, without so much as a fearful quid to call his own.

Imagination boggled at the prospect. In the summer and autumn, when there was shooting, his lordship was not indisposed to a stay at the home of his fathers. But all the year round! Better a broken heart inside the radius than a sound one in the country in the winter.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who left waterside
2. does he smoke?
3. where did he go?
4. was he old?
5. who could take away supplies?
6. Why?
7. was Uncle Tom liked?
8. where did he live if trouble happened?
9. did he call it his home?
10. when was there a shooting
11. where did he stay after
12. was there another season of shooting?
13. when?
14. who left on a canoe?
15. who did she leave with?
16. was this troublesome?
17. was someone engaged?
18. was The lord a hero?
19. where was the stain?
20. who was abandoned?
1. Lord Dreever
2. Yes.
3. On a tour.
4. Yes.
5. Uncle Tom
6. if there was trouble
7. No.
8. Dreever
9. No.
10. autumn
11. home of his fathers
12. YEs.
13. winter
14. Molly
15. Jimmy
16. No.
17. Yes.
18. He did not think so.
19. one's outlook on life
20. the girl one loves