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If I'd been but good gracious! I forgot Dick. Do come, Alicia, and get him away from her. We seem to have nothing but Medlands to-night!" The first person they met inside the ball-room was Mr. Coxon. He was enveloped in gloom. Alicia's conscience smote her. "Oh!" she cried, "I forgot Mr. Coxon! I must go and scold him for not coming for me. Nonsense, Eleanor!
He shook his head in indulgent disapproval, and said to Alicia, "Come, Al, we'll go and speak to them," and before Lady Eynesford could declare Alicia's company unnecessary, the pair had turned their horses' heads and were on the way to join the Medlands. Lady Eynesford's eyes followed them.
"Extraordinary the popularity of the man in Kirton," he observed, in answer to Alicia's eager description of Mr. Medland's triumph. "What has he done for them?" asked Eleanor. "Done? Oh, I don't know. He's done something, I suppose; but it's what he's going to do that they're so keen about." "Is he a Socialist?" inquired Alicia. "I can't tell you," replied Lord Eynesford.
"Never mind any more roses," said Alicia. "We ought to get home." They drove toward Tallyn in silence. Alicia's startling hat of white muslin framed the red gold of her hair, and the brilliant color assisted here and there by rouge of her cheeks and lips. She said presently, in a sympathetic voice: "How sorry one is for her!" Marsham made no reply.
"Then of course you ought to meet an actor. Tell Alicia to go ahead and ask this man. Tell her to invite him to tea on Friday. I'll arrange a pretty tea-party for you." "Oh, I'll tell her! She'll be SO glad!" and Dolly departed, quite unconscious that she had unwittingly betrayed Alicia's principal part in the scheme. Demurely Dolly went back to her room.
Somehow Alicia's words had quenched her high spirits for the moment. "Poor child! I do hope she hasn't been foolish," she mused. "Surely after what Mary told her ! Oh dear, I'm afraid it isn't all as happy as it is about Dick!"
"Well, he's my uncle, too, and what I say goes, as much as Alicia's commands." "There, there, girls, don't quarrel," said Mrs. Berry, in her amiable way. "Surely you can all be suited. There are two cars, you know, and if you each want to go in a different direction, I'll call taxi-cabs for you." Dolly and Dotty stared at this new lavishness, and Dotty said, quickly, "Oh, no, don't do that!
"In fact," said the Countess, "the remark comes to this, that Rudolph would never be sent to Russia, whatever else they might expect of him." Even through their tears Alicia's eyes brightened with triumph. "But he HAS gone, mamma! I got a letter from him this morning from St. Petersburg!"
It might be that Alicia's feelings had undergone no change, but, if so, Coxon was forced to recognise that he could never have enjoyed a large share of her favour, for she acknowledged his presence with the minimum of civility, and, when he addressed her directly, replied with the coldness of pronounced displeasure.
"But it's such a wonder-place!" and Dolly gazed longingly backward as they left the antiquities. "And there are rooms we haven't even looked into yet." "Dozens of 'em," assented Alicia. "But not this morning, my chickabiddy! I must flee to the busy marts and see what's doing in the way of tempting bargains." "All right," and Dolly put her arm through Alicia's. "What are you going to buy?"
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