BEECHCROFT AT ROCKSTONE 

by 

Charlotte M Yonge 

CHAPTER I.  A DISPERSION 

'A telegram! Make haste and open it, Jane; they always make me so
nervous! I believe that is the reason Reginald always _will_
telegraph when he is coming,' said Miss Adeline Mohun, a very pretty,
well preserved, though delicate-looking lady of some age about forty,
as her elder sister, brisk and lively and some years older, came into
the room. 

'No, it is not Reggie.  It is from Lily.  Poor Lily! Jasper---
accident---Come.' 

'Poor dear Lily! Is it young Jasper or old Jasper, I wonder?'