He told his father that he had found a governess.
"References all right?" said Sir Tancred.
"Yes, she carries them about with her," said Tinker diplomatically.
"I suppose I ought to see them, don't you think?"
"You will," said Tinker.
On her arrival on Saturday morning Dorothy found the children awaiting
her on the steps of the hotel; and to Tinker's extreme satisfaction,
she at once kissed Elsie. When she had been taken to her room, which
was next to Elsie's, and her trunks had been brought up, it was time to
go to dejeuner, and Tinker conducted her to the restaurant. They found
Sir Tancred and Lord Crosland already at table; they rose at the sight
of Dorothy, and Tinker introduced them to her gravely. Sir Tancred was
naturally surprised at being suddenly confronted by a startling vision
of beauty, when he had expected an ordinary young fresh-coloured,
good-natured Englishwoman. But for all the change worked in his face
by that surprise he might have been confronted by a vision of corkscrew
curls. Lord Crosland, however, so far forgot the proper dignity of a
peer as to kick Tinker gently under the table. Tinker looked at him
with a pained and disapproving air.
Dorothy was even more surprised by the sight of Sir Tancred.
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