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"Going with them to Baden-Baden?" said Crosbie. "For how long?" "Well: it would be no use unless it were for some time." "For how long a time do you mean, Alexandrina? Speak out what you really have to say. For a month?" "Oh, more than that." "For two months, or six, or as long as they may stay there?" "We could settle that afterwards, when I am there."
"It would be impossible for me to speak in terms too high of Miss Dale; but I am quite sure that I could not make her happy as her husband." "Why did you not think of that before you asked her?" said Alexandrina. But there was very little of condemnation in her tone. "I ought to have done so; but it is hardly for you to blame me with severity.
Constituents must be treated with respect; but time has become so scarce nowadays that that respect has to be meted out by the quarter of an hour with parsimonious care. In the meantime there was more leisure at Courcy Caste. Neither the countess nor Lady Alexandrina came down to breakfast, but their absence gave rise to no special remark.
"It sounds so like a sermon." "Sit down, Mr Crosbie," said the countess, "and let us have a little conversation. She shall sit by you, if you like it. Nonsense, Alexandrina, if he asks it!" "Don't, mamma; I mean to remain where I am." "Very well, my dear; then remain where you are.
He, therefore, got into conversation first with one and then with another of the girls, till at last he found himself again alone with Alexandrina. "Mr Crosbie," she said, in a low voice, as they were standing together over one of the distant tables, with their backs to the rest of the company, "I want you to tell me something about Miss Lilian Dale."
He would, in that case, at any rate, have been saved from Lady Alexandrina. "George and his wife are coming up to town; couldn't we ask them to come to us for a week or so?" said his wife to him, as soon as they were in the fly together, going home. "No," shouted Crosbie; "we will do no such thing." There was not another word said on the subject, nor on any other subject till they got home.
Lady Alexandrina also found her new life rather dull, and was sometimes inclined to be a little querulous. She would tell her husband that she never got out, and would declare, when he offered to walk with her, that she did not care for walking in the streets. "I don't exactly see, then, where you are to walk," he once replied.
The country immediately behind Cape Jervis may, strictly speaking, be termed a promontory, bounded to the west by St. Vincent's Gulf, and to the east by the lake Alexandrina, and the sandy track separating that basin from the sea.
The first child that came to the Duke and Duchess was Lady Victoria Alexandrina Violet, born in 1890. She was highly honoured at her christening, for Queen Victoria acted as sponsor person, and held the baby in her arms. There is at Welbeck an autograph letter from the Queen, congratulating the parents on their firstborn.
Thus warned, Alexandrina had been firm, and now their tent was to be pitched in Princess Royal Crescent, from one end of which the Hyde Park may be seen. The furniture had been ordered chiefly under the inspection, and by the experience, of the Lady Amelia.
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