"Oh, all right. Why don't you go round and see her?" Noel asked the question with some curiosity. He had begun to wonder lately if there could have been a disagreement between them. Daisy smiled with a touch of wistfulness. She had scarcely seen Olga since the breaking of her engagement. "I seem to have so little time nowadays. The last time I went, she was busy too." "Oh, she's sure to be busy till Bassett week," laughed Noel. "I'm seeing to that. It's good for her, you know." "Yes, I know," said Daisy. She added in a lower tone, for Hunt-Goring was smoking on the verandah outside the window, "I am glad you are taking care of her, Noel. She needs that." Noel coloured a little. "I do what I can. So does Nick. But I wish you would go and see her. She wants a pal of her own sex." "I am not so sure of that," said Daisy. "Ah, here's Peggy! I thought you wouldn't escape without seeing her." Peggy's entrance was of the nature of a whirlwind. It completely diverted the thoughts of both. She was scantily clad in a bath-towel which she held tightly gripped with both hands about her small person. Her feet left little wet dabs on the floor as she pattered in. "Oh, Noel!" she cried. "You horrid, horrid Noel! I've been callin' you for ever so long. And I was in my bath. I thought you'd like to see me in my bath." "Peggy!" exclaimed her mother, scandalized. Peggy's _ayah_, also scandalized, hovered in the doorway. Peggy, herself, from the safe shelter of Noel's arms, smiled securely upon both. "You mustn't tickle me," she said to her protector, "or I shall come undone. Why hasn't you been to take me for another ride, Noel?" "Sweetheart--" he began with compunction. But Peggy interrupted very decidedly. "No, you needn't make excuses. And I'm not goin' to be your sweetheart any more--ever--not till you take me for another ride." "Oh, don't be cruel!" besought Noel. "I've been so shockingly busy lately. It wasn't that I forgot you, Peggy. I couldn't do that if I tried. So give me a kiss, little sweetheart, and let's be friends! I vow I'll tickle you if you won't." Peggy, however, was nothing daunted by this threat. She kept her face rigidly turned over his shoulder. "When will you take me for another ride?" she demanded imperiously. "Peggy," her mother broke in again, "I can't have you behaving like this, dear. It isn't decent. Go back to _ayah_ at once!" Peggy peeped mischievously over Noel's shoulder. "If I get down again, I shall come all undone," she said. "By Jove, what a calamity!" said Noel. "Haven't you got a pin or something to hold the thing together?" She tightened her arms about his neck. "You carry me back!" she whispered ingratiatingly. "An' I'll give you three booful kisses!" Noel succumbed at once. "Can't resist that!" he remarked to Daisy. "I'll take her back and slap her for you, shall I?" "I wish you would," said Daisy. "He daren't!" declared Peggy.