"Sarah," she called out.
The sound of a typewriter in an inner room ceased. The door was opened
and a girl appeared on the threshold.
"You won't see me again to-day unless you send up for me," her mistress
announced. "Let me have the letters to sign before five. Try and get
away early, if you can. The car is going in to Lynton. Perhaps you
would like the ride?"
"I should enjoy it very much, your ladyship," the girl replied
gratefully. "There is really very little to do this afternoon."
"You can bring the letters whenever you like, then," Lady Jane told her,
"and let Martin know that you are going in with him."
"You study your people, I see," Tallente remarked, as they strolled
together back to the house.
"I try," she assented. "I try to do what I can in my little community
here, very much as you, in a far greater way, try to study the people in
your political programme. Of course," she went on, "it is far easier
for me. The one thing I try to develop amongst them is a genuine, not
a false spirit of independence. I want them to lean upon no one.
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