Miss Waring, who
sat
next to her host, thought she had seldom met a man with so kind
and
simple a nature. She rather resented the fact, and she was
inwardly
indignant that so much right feeling and affection could be
wasted
on farmyard fowls, and four-footed animals. She felt sure that
some
nice girl, seated at the other end of the table, smiling through
the light of the wax candles upon Herrick, would soon make him
forget his love of "Nature and Nature's children." She even saw
herself there, and this may have made her exhibit more interest
in
Herrick's experiment than she really felt. In any event, Herrick
found her most sympathetic' and when dinner was over carried her
off to a corner of the terrace. It was a warm night in early
October, and the great woods of the game preserve that stretched
below them were lit with a full moon.
On his way to the lake for a moonlight row with one of the house
party who belonged to that sex that does not row, but looks well
in
the moon-light, Kelly halted, and jeered mockingly.
"How can you sit there," he demanded, "while those poor beasts
are
freezing in a cave, with not even a silk coverlet or a
pillow-sham.
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