CHAPTER XIX THE YEARS OF REMEMBRANCE

Shirley’s first dinner at Somerville Towers passed off uneventfully. It was rather a ceremonious function, with a lordly butler and two tall footmen in attendance, as befitted what, with a gleam of inward mirth, she mentally characterized as her “baronial surroundings.” Immediately the meal was concluded, and without even waiting to partake of coffee, Sir John proposed that he and Bob should stroll over to the home farm, and accordingly the two men set off across the park, leaving Lady Beth and Shirley to have thei…