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It was nearly six o'clock when Geoffrey and his cousins left Mardenholme. On descending from Lady Baker's apartments in quest of Belle and Jessie, Mr. Hossack had found those two damsels wandering among the shrubberies in the forlornest manner, vainly striving to stifle frequent yawns, so unentertaining had been the society of the devoted Mr. and Mrs. Wimple, ‘who scarcely did anything but whisper and titter to each other all the time we were with them,' Belle said afterwards.
‘I thought you were playing croquet,' said Geoffrey, when he found this straggling party in a grove of arbutus and magnolia.