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'Is it so important that it can't wait till to-morrow? 'I venture to think it's very important. And by now everybody has gone. 'I'm all attention, she smiled. Boulger hesitated for a moment, then braced himself for the ordeal. 'I've told you often, Lucy, that I've been desperately in love with you for more years than I can remember, he said, flushing with nervousness.
She made no reply, and he pressed on: "It can't be that you're worried about Leila, for Charlotte Wynn told me she'd been there last week, and there was a big party arriving when she left: Fresbies and Gileses, and Mrs. Lorin Boulger all the board of examiners! If Leila has passed that, she's got her degree." Mrs.
People forget that kid gloves are not much use in a tropical forest, and they grow very indignant when they hear that a man has used a little brute force to make himself respected. 'All that's beside the point, said Boulger, impatiently. 'MacKenzie sent poor George into a confounded trap to save his own dirty skin. 'Poor Lucy! moaned Lady Kelsey. 'First her father died....
"There is much in what you say, Sir Cuthbert; and indeed a certain confirmation is given to it by the fact that only yesterday I received a letter from Sir Rudolph, urging that now the Lady Margaret is past the age of fifteen, and may therefore be considered marriageable, the will of the prince should be carried into effect, and that she should for the present be committed to the charge of the Lady Clara Boulger, who is the wife of a friend and associate of Sir Rudolph.
The barrister, all his flippancy gone, turned to Lucy. 'Bobbie Boulger has come down. He wants to see you. Please come at once. Lucy looked at him quickly. Sick with fear, she followed him into the drawing-room. Mrs. Crowley and Robert Boulger were standing by the fire, and there was a peculiar agitation about them. They were silent, but it seemed to Lucy that they had been speaking of her. Mrs.
The colour came to Lucy's cheeks as she felt a sudden glow of relief. 'Thank God, she murmured. 'I was so frightened. She gave him, now, a smile of welcome as she shook hands with him. It could be nothing so very dreadful after all. Lucy's uncle, Sir George Boulger, had been for many years senior partner in the great firm of Boulger & Kelsey.
I shall be glad to see Mary Giles again. It must be eighteen years," said Mrs. Lidcote steadily. "Yes," Miss Suffern gasped, precipitately refilling her cup. "The Ashton Gileses; and who else?" "Well, the Sam Fresbies. But the most important person, of course, is Mrs. Lorin Boulger." "Mrs. Boulger? Leila didn't tell me she was coming." "Didn't she? I suppose she forgot everything when she saw you.
"Why shouldn't you, as Leila says, wait here till we can all pack up and go together?" Mrs. Lidcote smiled her gratitude with her refusal. "After all, it's not yet sure that you'll be packing up." "Oh, you ought to have seen Wilbour with Mrs. Boulger," Leila triumphed. "No, you ought to have seen Leila with her," Leila's husband exulted.
'Lucy has broken off her engagement with Robert Boulger, she said. 'That young woman seems to make a speciality of breaking her engagements, he answered drily. 'I'm afraid she's still in love with Alec MacKenzie. 'Then why on earth did she accept Bobbie? 'My dear boy, she only took him in a fit of temper. When that had cooled down she very wisely thought better of it.
He married the younger Miss Boulger, and on her dowry paid off the mortgages on Hamlyn's Purlieu, his own debts, and succeeded for several years in having an excellent time. The poor woman, happily blind to his defects, adored him with all her soul. She trusted him entirely with the management of her money and only regretted that the affairs connected with it kept him so much in town.
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