I don't think that
they will be finished before tomorrow evening. The men can get to
work early in the morning, and we can be here by two o'clock next
day."
"No, I think that we will come tomorrow, Major Mallett.
"It will be a novelty to sail in a cripple, won't it, mamma?
"Besides, you know, or you ought to know, that the day after
tomorrow is Sunday, and that at present our plans are arranged for
going up to town on Monday."
"That being so," Frank said with a smile, "by all means come
tomorrow. Will you come to lunch, or afterwards?"
"Afterwards, I think. We will be down at the club landing stage at
half-past two."
"Bertha is bent upon taking possession of you tomorrow," Lady
Greendale said, smiling, as the girl turned away; "and I shall be
glad for her to have a quiet two or three hours out of the racket.
A large party is very fatiguing, and I think that it has been too
much for her. Yesterday and today she has been quite unlike
herself; at one time sitting quiet and saying nothing, at other
times rattling away with Miss Haverley and Lady Olive, and
absolutely talking down both of them, which I should have thought
impossible.
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