' At this moment
Isabel Boncassen was standing close to them.
'Killancodlem against Crummie-Toddie forever,' said Miss
barbarian, waving her handkerchief. As a matter of course a
messenger was sent back to Crummie-Toddie for the young lord's
evening apparel.
The whole of that afternoon was spent playing lawn-tennis with
Miss Boncassen. Lady Mabel was asked to join the party, but she
refused, having promised to take a walk to a distant waterfall
where the Codlem falls into the Archay. A gentleman in
knickerbockers was to have gone with her, and two other young
ladies, but when the time came she was weary, she said,--and she
sat almost the entire afternoon looking at the game from a
distance. Silverbridge played well, but not so well as the pretty
American. With them were joined two others, somewhat inferior, so
that Silverbridge and Miss Boncassen were on different sides. They
played game after game, and Miss Boncassen's side always won.
Very little was said between Silverbridge and Miss Boncassen which
did not refer to the game.
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