Kingsnorth hurried out on to the path and saw a number of men and
women walking slowly down the drive, in the centre of which the
soldiers were carrying a body on some branches. Riding beside them
was his sister Angela with her groom.
"What new horror is this?" he thought, as he hurried down the path
to meet the procession.
CHAPTER V
ANGELA
Wilberforce Kingsnorth left three children: Nathaniel--whose
acquaintance we have already made, and who in a large measure
inherited much of his father's dominant will and hardheadedness--
Monica, the elder daughter, and Angela the younger.
Nathaniel was the old man's favourite.
While still a youth he inculcated into the boy all the tenets of
business, morality and politics that had made Wilberforce
prosperous.
Pride in his name: a sturdy grasp of life: an unbending attitude
toward those beneath him, and an abiding reverence for law and order
and fealty to the throne--these were the foundations on which the
father built Nathaniel's character.
Next in point of regard came the elder daughter Monica. Patrician of
feature, haughty in manner, exclusive by nature she had the true
Kingsnorth air. She had no disturbing "ideas": no yearning for
things not of her station.
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