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"In that case," Eleanor said, "I shall be very pleased to accompany you, Mr Ormston"

"Hoas it?" Anne demanded the moment Eleanor entered the house "Oh, I can see froain!" She pulled her into her areable A woman merely needs to find the one who pro"

Eleanor smiled at her "He asked me to accompany him to a chess exhibition tomorrow"

"Well, better you than me," Anne said "How utterly tedious You didn’t talk about chess with Mr Ormston, did you, Eleanor? He won’t like it when he finds out how good you are Men never like being beaten at gae it"

"I can do that," Eleanor said, and disappeared, rather dreamily, up the stairs

Mr Ormston’s landau appeared the next afternoon, promptly at two "I’m really not sure about this person," her et away from the , I shall bar you from this house You’ll have to ask hientleman e haven’t met"

"Oh, but you have met him, Mother," Eleanor said

"I’m quite sure I have not!" the duchess retorted

"It was soo…but of course one must make allowances for one’s lance of total revulsion "I suppose I uely fa widely

Mr Or by the landau, of course, and handed her up with the utht that perhaps he was even courteous to a fault, but then she decided to sies and gentlefolk; every person in the ton seee

Mr Orh he did receive a few puzzled glances--but she, of course, saw many friends

"The chess exhibition is on Buck Hill Walk," he said as his landau ca his hand the round, as was proper

A fewa chesscourtier The courtier looked up and gave a little start "Dashed if I didn’t think for a

Mr Orood idea because his voice was altogether too recognizable

The Russian gentleman looked up for a moment and then back at the board with a faint sain, Potemkin," the courtier said discontentedly

"Surely not," Eleanor said sweetly

The youngdress, with particular attention to the low bodice, and quite visibly made up his mind to smile He would have been surprised to learn that the exquisite lady before hi

He rose and bowed, and even brought her gloved hand to his lips "Alas, I a

Eleanor leaned forward and said, "Queen to Rook Four, then he’ll ’s Rook Three You take his paith your bishop, he will recapture Then you play Queen takes pawn His King is laid open and your attack is invulnerable"

The lance at the sun, "it’s looking alarly cloudy"

The courtier sat down

"You are a forht still lose," Eleanor said