s face without it. In other
respects, he was very broad, but of sufficient height to carry off
the breadth without giving the appearance of being short. A broken
front tooth, often exposed by laughter, completed the general
irregularity of his face. The fascinating greyness was accompanied
by a tendency to high forehead, due probably to incipient baldness
rather than to abnormal intellectual development.

"I don't know what Jove has got to do with it," said Daisy; "but if he
is responsible, I think it is delightful of him. I am glad you are here.
I thought I was going into the wilderness too. Oh, I think you have met
my cousin."

He had met Gladys about a hundred times, so Daisy was quite right, and
they shook hands gravely. That ceremony over, he turned to Daisy again
without pause.

"Dance, too, isn't there?" he said. "I shan't know a soul. I never do.
Do dance with me sometimes, out of pity's sake, Miss Daisy--just now and
then, you know."

Daisy gave an altogether excessive florin to the cabman, who held it in
the palm of his hand, and looked at it as if it were some curious
botanical specimen hitherto unknown to him.

"And one usually says 'Thank you!'" she observed.--"Yes, Lord Lindfield,
let's dance now and then."

CHAPTER V.

Their dancing now and then chiefly assumed the less violent form of
dancing, namely, sitting in as sequestered places as they could find.
There was nothing very sequestered, as the house was rather small and
the guests extremely numerous, and they sat generally in full view of
the whole world, Daisy being occasionally torn away by other partners
and being annexed again by him on the earliest possible occasion. In
such absences, though the good-humour of his face showed no sign of
abatement, he became extremely distrait, failed to recognize people he
knew quite well, and took up his stand firmly at the door of the
ballroom, where he could observe her and be at hand as soon as she was
disengaged again.

Their hostess, Mrs. Streatham, was a very rich and gloriously pushing
woman, with no nonsense about her, and but little sense. She was
engaged in pushing her way steadily upwards through what is known as
the top-crust of society, and if she wanted anybody particularly to
come to her house, gave him or her the choice of some six dinners and
ten lunches, further facilitating matters by requesting the desired
object to drop in any time. It was Lord Lindfield's first appearance