Chapter 17 FOXGLOVES AND FLIRTATIONS

"With her venturous climbings, and tumbles, and childish escapes."

Tennyson.

Hubert Delrio, pleased and gratified, but very shy, joined the ladies from the Goyle in their walk to Clipstone, expecting perhaps a good deal of stiffness and constraint, since every one at St. Kenelm's told him what a severe and formidable person Sir Jasper Merrifi