Chapter 46 THE LION IN THE PATH

A large and merry party of guests were congregated in the great hall at

Perrythorpe Court, having tea. One of them-a young soldier-cousin of the

Studleys-was singing a sentimental ditty at a piano to which no one was

listening; and the hubbub was considerable.

Dinah, admitted into the outer hall that was curtained off from the gay crowd