CHAPTER XVIFor the first week of her visit Lady Margaret took complete possession of Reggie. Politically she was a tower of strength. No one could have had a more persuasive way with voters or given more confidence to the candidate himself. Jean had only to stand aside, and it was not until she found how often Ian stood aside with her, that she found herself suspecting Lady Margaret's political zeal of having a divided aim.
Jean couldn't do anything to prevent this isolation, because Lady Margaret's way of obtaining her desires was simply to walk off with the obstacle in her pocket.
But Jean was not left long alone to consider how to play a game--which, if it hadn't been a game, might have been so pleasant an interlude. Beatrice, against all the doctor's orders, came downstairs. She look
