ey'll go on by rail to Avignon,
and--"

"There must have been a dreadful row!" I groaned.

"Not at all. You're not to worry. Lady Turnour behaved like a cad, as
usual, but what can you expect? Sir Samuel did the best he could. He
would have liked to wait, but if he'd insisted she would have had
hysterics."

"How came there to be a carriage here?" I asked the guide.

"The gentleman paid three young men who had driven up in it a good sum
to get it for himself," he explained, "and they are walking down. They
are of Germany."

"Was it a long time?" I went on. "Oh, it _must_ have been. It's nearly
dark now, except for the moonlight."

"It is perhaps an hour altogether since mademoiselle separated herself
from the others," the guide admitted. "But they have been gone for more
than half that time. They did not delay long, after the little dispute
with monsieur about the car."

"Oh, there was a dispute!" I caught him up, wheeling upon the chauffeur.
"You _must_ tell me."

"It was nothing much," he said, still very kindly, "and it was her
ladyship's fault, of course. If you were plain and elderly she'd have
more patience; but as it is, you've seen how quick she is to scold; so,
of course, she was angry when she'd finished her grog and you didn't
turn up."

"What did she say," I asked.

He laughed. "She was quite irrelevant."

"I must know!"

"Well, she seemed to lay most of the blame on the colour of your hair
and eyelashes."

"She said--"

"What could be expected of a girl that dyed her hair yellow and her
eyelashes black?"

"_Horrid_ woman! You don't believe I do, do you?"

"I must say it hadn't occurred to me to think of it."

Then I remembered how angry I was with him, and didn't pursue that
subject, but turned again to the other. However, I made a mental note
that there was one more thing to punish him for when I got the chance.

"What else did she say?"

"She began to turn purple when Sir Samuel would have defended you, and
said she wouldn't stand your taking such liberties. That it was
monstrous, and a few other things, to be kept freezing on mountains by
one's domestics, and that she should be ill if she waited. Sir Samuel
persuaded her to give you fifteen minutes' grace, but after that she was
determined to start. Of course, she didn't know that an accident had
happened. She thought you were simply dawdling, and wanted Sir Samuel to
arrange for you to drive down with the newly arrived German t