xi LADY MAUD'S WALK 201 



Tea-time, did you say ? No, I have not 

 been asleep, only lost in profound medita- 

 tion. Has the Sunday school gone ? Good ! 

 What, you have found three of the bowls 

 on the tennis-lawn ? And they have been 

 gnawed ? All right, I'm coming. Well, I 

 was right in exonerating Lady Maud, but I 

 wonder I didn't think of the dogs. And 

 now for my well-earned tea. 



