The Reason Why

Chapter 33

People left by all sorts of trains and motors in the morning; but there

were still one or two remaining, when the bride and bridegroom made

their departure, in their beautiful new car with its smart servants,

which had come to fetch them, and take them to Wrayth.

And, just as the Dover young ladies on the pier had admired their

embarkation, with its _apanages_ of position and its romantic look, so

every one who saw them leave Montfitchet was alike elated. They were

certainly an ideal pair.

Zara had taken the greatest pains to dress herself in her best. She

remembered Tristram had admired her the first evening they had arrived

for this visit, when she had worn sapphire blue, so now she put on the

same colored velvet and the sable coat--yes, he liked that best, too,

and she clasp