"
Accordingly, that afternoon, when they met at the usual hour, when
the band was playing, Isobel went up to the Colonel's wife.
"I want to thank you, Mrs. Cromarty. Dr. Wade has told me that you
had intended to offer me a seat in your carriage to the races. It
was very kind and nice of you to think of me, and I am very much
obliged to you. I should have enjoyed it very much if it hadn't
been that Mrs. Hunter is coming to stay with us, and, of course,
I shall be under her wing. Still, I am just as much obliged to you
for having thought of it."
Mrs. Cromarty was pleased with the girl's warmth and manner, and
afterwards mentioned to several of her friends that she thought
that Miss Hannay seemed a very nice young woman.
"I was not quite favorably impressed at first," she admitted. "She
has the misfortune of being a little brusque in her manner, but,
of course, her position is a difficult one, being alone out here,
without any lady with her, and no doubt she feels it so. She was
quite touchingly grateful, only because I offered her a seat in
our carriage for the races, though she was unable to accept it, as
the Major will have the Hunters staying with him."
CHAPTER VI.
The clubhouse at Cawnpore was crowded on the evening before the
races. Up to eleven o'clock it had been comparatively deserted,
for there was scarcely a bungalow in the station at which dinner
parties were not going on; but, after eleven, the gentlemen for the
most part adjourned to the club for a smoke, a rubber, or a game
of billiards, or to chat over the racing events of the next day.
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