Chapter 11 THE MARVELS OF PHADRIG

The time, about an hour or so before tea, was occupied by the guests according to their varying tastes-in tennis, croquet, more or less good-natured gossip, and flirtations which may or may not have been serious.

Nitocris saw with growing cause for self-gratulation that Lord Leighton and Brenda were decidedly attracted towards each other. He, in