CHAPTER 3After dinner the party of four had coffee in the garden, while the westering sun seemed to fill the still air with a quintessence of radiance, and the massed colors of the rhododendrons took on an almost unearthly loveliness. Eve, solicitous for her sister’s comfort, but still longing to stay out of doors in the glory of the sunset, said:
“Will you find it too cold if we just go and look at the lake where the hydrangeas are? It always looks so lovely in the evening light.”
Emmeline shivered a little and drew her fur cape closer around her shoulders. “All right, if it’s not too far. It gets cold in the evenings here.”
“What about that cave?” Lockersley spoke abruptly to Bruce Rhodian. The former, more sensitive than he looked, had a feeling that Eve would like to be alone with h
