"
The girl's eyes were on the deck for some moments before she replied,
then she looked across at the dancers, and finally said:
"I think the ball on the 'Consternation' quite equals anything I have
ever attended."
"It is nice of you to say that. Praise from-- I won't name Sir Hubert
Stanley-- but rather Lady Hubert Stanley-- is praise, indeed. And now,
Miss Amhurst, since I have confessed my fruitless wanderings through
Bar Harbor, may I not have the pleasure of calling upon you to-morrow
or next day?"
Her eyes were dreamily watching the dancers.
"I suppose," she said slowly, with the flicker of a smile curving
those enticing lips, "that since you were so very friendly with
Captain Kempt to-night he may expect you to smoke a cigar with him,
and it will possibly happen that Katherine and I, who are very fond of
the Captain, may chance to come in while you are there."
"Katherine? Ah, Katherine is the name of the young lady who was with
you here-- Miss Kempt?"
"Yes."
"You are stopping with the Kempts, then?"
"Yes."
"I wonder if they'd think I was taking a liberty if I brought Jack
Lamont with me?"
"The Prince?" laughed Dorothy. "Is he a real prince?"
"Oh, yes, there's no doubt about that. I shouldn't have taken the
liberty of introducing him to you as Prince Lermontoff if he were not,
as we say in Scotland, a real Mackay-- the genuine article. Well,
then, the Prince and I will pay our respects to Captain Kempt
to-morrow afternoon.
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