"I thought you alone, Miss Keeldar," he said. "I find quite a party."
And evidently from his shocked, scandalized air, had he not recognized in one of the party a clergyman, he would have delivered an extempore philippic on the extraordinary habits of his niece: respect for the cloth arrested him.
"I merely wished to announce," he proceeded coldly, "that the family from De Walden Hall, Mr., Mrs., the Misses, and Mr. Sam Wynne, are in the drawing-room." And he bowed and withdrew.
"The family from De Walden Hall! Couldn't be a worse set," murmured Shirley.

"I thought you were alone, Miss Keeldar," he said, with a scandalized air. "I find quite a party. The family from De Walden Hall are in the drawing-room." And he bowed and withdrew.
"The Wynnes! Couldn't be a worse set," murmured Shirley. 