"Alas I have quarreled so dreadfully with Charles that I am obliged to seek refuge at Lacy Manor!" She said mournfully. "And have doubtless left a note behind you to inform him of this!" "Of course!" "I foresee a happy meeting!" he commented bitterly. "That," she acknowledged, "was the difficulty! But I think I can overcome it. I promise you, Charlbury, you shall come out of it with a whole skin--sell, no, perhaps not quite that, but very nearly!"