Mullet; "can't you imagine the headline, 'Valuable Hunter Stolen by
Suffragettes'? The police would scour the countryside till they found
the animal."
"Well, Jessie must try and get it back from Penricarde on the plea that
it's an old favourite. She can say it was only sold because the stable
had to be pulled down under the terms of an old repairing lease, and that
now it has been arranged that the stable is to stand for a couple of
years longer."
"It sounds a queer proceeding to ask for a horse back when you've just
sold him," said Mrs. Mullet, "but something must be done, and done at
once. The man is not used to horses, and I believe I told him it was as
quiet as a lamb. After all, lambs go kicking and twisting about as if
they were demented, don't they?"
"The lamb has an entirely unmerited character for sedateness," agreed
Clovis.
Jessie came back from the golf links next day in a state of mingled
elation and concern.
"It's all right about the proposal," she announced; "he came out with it
at the sixth hole. I said I must have time to think it over. I accepted
him at the seventh."
"My dear," said her mother, "I think a little more maidenly reserve and
hesitation would have been advisable, as you've known him so short a
time. You might have waited till the ninth hole."
"The seventh is a very long hole," said Jessie; "besides, the tension was
putting us both off our game. By the time we'd got to the ninth hole
we'd settled lots of things.
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