We will keep that until you take up your
quarters at the Crow's Nest. We generally have one big affair before
the summer is over, and then our friends come down from town, and we
have to commandeer all the carriages in the place to meet the train.
Elizabeth calls it 'The Templeton's Bean-feast.'"
"Yes, I see," and Malcolm forced a smile at the little joke.
"This will be a very different function," continued Dinah. "We are
only asking about five-and-twenty people. We shall have tea in the
hall--it is the coolest place in this weather--and there will be two
or three sets of tennis, and croquet for those who like it. It was
all Elizabeth's plan. You have no idea what a talent she has for
organisation--she almost takes my breath away some-times. She
planned everything last night and had the list ready for me when I
went to bid her good-night."
"That accounts for the light in the Red Gallery when Cedric and I
came in," remarked Malcolm.
"Yes, we were dreadfully late; but Elizabeth was so wide--awake that
I was quite ashamed of my own drowsiness. I think we shall get a
pleasant party together.
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