ABSTRACT
Francis Hawknorbuzzard, Marquis of Humnoddie, our heroine’s acquaintance of Ruddymere Park, was the man called to head the Bungling Coalition, a post for which his pliant and amiable disposition well fitted him. It happened just now that his wife was frequently evading the press of her social obligations in town by a run down for a day or two to Ruddymere, accompanied by her younger daughter Friga, who, unlike her sister, loved the country and hated London.
