"I'll go and see to it at once, sir," he said with alacrity, and with less frigidity in his manner. "Has her ladyship everything she wants for supper?""Everything, thanks, honest friend, and as I am famished and dead with fatigue, I pray you see to the rooms.""Now tell me," she said eagerly, as soon as Jellyband had gone from the room, "tell me all your news.""There is nothing else much to tell you, Lady Blakeney,"replied the young man. "The storm makes it quite impossible for any vessel to put out of Dover this tide. But, what seems to you at first a terrible calamity is really a blessing in disguise. If we cannot cross over to France to-night, Chauvelin is in the same quandary.
