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"And if that isn't old for a woman where are we to look for it?" Lord Blyston replied that there were many women far older than Adela Sellingworth, to which his son answered: "Anyhow, she's as active as a cat, so why don't you marry her?" "She's twenty years too young for me," said Lord Blyston. "I should bore her to death."
They were so carefully hidden that not one of her friends, not one of the "old guard," suspected that she had made up her mind to marry again and to make what is universally called "a foolish marriage." His name was Rupert Louth, and he was the fourth son of an impecunious but delightful peer, Lord Blyston.
What he wants is a wife who can manage him, with a decent amount of money." Without exactly saying so, Lady Sellingworth implied that she would see what she could do for Rupert. From that moment Lord Blyston pushed "the lad" perpetually towards 18A Berkeley Square. Rupert Louth was fair and very good-looking, reckless and full of go. And wherever he went he carried with him an outdoor atmosphere.
And finally she broke it to Lord Blyston at Rupert's earnest request. That should have been her supreme effort. But it was not. There was no rest in pretence. As soon as Lord Blyston knew, everyone knew, including the "old guard." And then, of course, Lady Sellingworth's energies had all to be called into full play.
She resolved to open Rupert Louth's eyes and to make him understand that she and all she stood for were at his disposal. She knew he was up to the eyes in debt. She knew he had no prospects. Lord Blyston had no money to give him, and was for ever in difficulties himself. It was a critical moment for Louth, and a critical moment for her.
The Duchess of Wellingborough said often at this time: "Addie Sellingworth has the stuff in her of a leader of forlorn hopes!" Lord Blyston paid up for "the Crouch," once Willoughby, who had now left the Alhambra disconsolate.
Here he was back on the family's hands with expensive tastes and no prospects whatever! "And he's always after the women, too!" said Lord Blyston, with admiring despair. "He's been away from them so long there's no holding him." After a pause he added: "My dear Adela, if you want to do me a good turn find the lad a wife. His poor mother's gone, or she would have done it.
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