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Lady Kingswood's mind floundered helplessly in this flood of what, to her, was inco voice which was one of her special charms

"If you haven't read Keats, you hts' and the story of 'Sindbad the Sailor'? Yes? You think you have? Well, you kno poor Sindbad got into the Valley of Diale to fly down and carry him off! That's just like me! I've been dropped into a Valley of Diale has arrived!"

"I'swood--"I'm rather dense, you know! Surely your Valley of Diale' possible?"

Morgana nodded

"Exactly! If there had been no Valley of Diale! But, all the saet out of the valley!"

Lady Kingswood laughed

"My dear child, if you are ory on your wealth, you are not 'out of the valley' nor are you likely to be!"

Morgana sighed

"My vulgar wealth!" she ar?"

"Yes A ine!" said Lady Kingswood, wared her shoulders carelessly

"Oh, no, he isn't He's eccentric, but not vulgar He's aristocratic to the tips of his toes--and English That accounts for his rudeness Solishmen can be VERY rude! But I'd rather have them so--it's a sort of well-bred clu It's not the 'lish yourself, aren't you?" queried her colish in any sense I'hlands of Scotland But I hate to say I'y people use that word for whisky! I'hland-born My father andlad of that! I'lad my eyes did not look their first on a city! There's a tradition in the part of Scotland where I was born which tells of a history far far back in tireatly civilised e all were but savages, and they hland women and had children by theypt they left many traces of Eastern customs and habits which remain to this day My father used always to say that he could count his ancestry back to Egypt!--it pleased him to think so and it did nobody any harm!"