Half a dozen times word for word she read through these magic pages, until she felt that she simply could not make a mistake at lunch. Then a page or two farther on, past Clarendon and Clarina, she came to:
CLEVEDEN, BARON. (Lonsdale) [Baron G.B. 1762.]
CHARLES ARTHUR BRABAZON LONSDALE. _G.C.M.G., G.C.I.E._ 5th Baron; _b._ Oct. 10, 1858; _s._ 1888; ed. at Eton and at Ch. Ch. Oxford. (B.A. 1880); is a J.P. and D.L. for Warwickshire and Verderer of the Forest of Arden; Hon. Col. of Yeo.; sat as M.P. for West Warwick--(C) 1880-1884; was Assist. Private Sec. to the Premier--(M. Salisbury) 1885-6; Gov. and Com. in Ch. of E. Australia. 1893-99; and Gov. of Central India. 1899-1901; _K.C.M.G._ 1893; _G.C.M.G._ 1898; _G.C.I.E._ 1899: _m._ 1882 Lady Helen Druce (an Extra Woman of the Bed-chamber to H.M. Queen Victoria), dau. of 10th Earl of Monteith and has issue.
_Arms_--Argent, an oak tree englanté vert. _Crest_--A bugle horn or, enguiché and stringed vert. _Supporters_--On either side a forester sounding a horn proper. _Motto_--J'y serai.
_Seat_--Cressingham Hall, Warwick. _Clubs_--Carlton. Travellers'.
_Hon._ ARTHUR GEORGE MORNINGTON. _b._ Feb. 24, 1883.
"Sylvia?" Dorothy said to herself. But she decided to stick to the name Dorothy, and went on reading about her family.
_Rev_. the Hon. George, _b._ 1860; ed. at Eton, and at St. Mary's Coll. Oxford. (B.A. 1883. M.A. 1886); is R. of Bingham-cum-Bingham Monachorum; _m._ 1894 Mary Alice, dau. of the late Rev. Francis Greville, V. of St. Wilfred's, Tilchester, and Hon. Canon of Tilchester, and has issue living, Arthur Brabazon--_b._ 1896. Mary--_b._ 1898. Georgina Maud--_b._ 1900. _Residence_--Bingham Rectory, Hants.
_Hon._ Frances Louisa, _b._ 1863. _m._ 1885 Sir William Honeywood-Greene, 6th Bt. _Residence_--Arden Towers, Warwick.
_Hon._ Caroline, _b._ 1865. _m._ 1886 Sir Stanley Pinkerton, K.C.V.O. Master of the King's Spaniels. _Residence_--210 Eaton Square, S.W.
There followed a couple of pages devoted to collateral branches of the Lonsdales. These were something new: the Clares apparently lacked collaterals. Presently it dawned on Dorothy that these collaterals treated of the more distant relations of the family, and in a fever she began to search for confirmation of the legend in Lonsdale Road that through their grandmother, Mrs. Doyle, the Caffyns were connected with Lord Cleveden. On and on she read through colonels and rectors with their numerous offspring, through consuls and captains and judges and doctors even; but there was no mention of Doyles, still less of Caffyns. The connection must indeed be very remote: perhaps it was hidden among the predecessors.