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Updated: May 15, 2025
"It will be simply too gorgeously wonderful, with just a fillet of gold round her head, and all her adorable red hair hanging down," Lady Anningford said to Ethelrida. "We shan't have to wear a stitch underneath," Lady Betty announced decidedly, while she pirouetted before a cheval glass they were all in Lady Anningford's room with some stuff draped round her childish form.
"Queen Anne, you wonder!" said the Crow. "It is such a deliciously incongruous idea, you see," Lady Anningford went on. "All of us in long pre-mediaeval garments, with floating hair, and all of you in modern hunt coats! I should like to have seen Tristram in gold chain armor." The Crow grunted approval. "Ethelrida is going to arrange that they go in to dinner together.
There was no one else except Tristram, who I know was in the smoking-room, with a fearful headache, and Mr. Markrute, who was with the Duke." "Was he with the Duke?" queried the Crow. "Crow!" almost gasped Lady Anningford. "Do you mean to tell me that you think Ethelrida would have her face looking like that about a foreigner!
Even the Crow, so thrilled with his interest in the bridal pair, had not scented anything unusual in his hostess's attitude towards one of her guests. "I think Mr. Markrute is awfully attractive, don't you, Crow?" said Lady Anningford, as they started for their walk. To go to Lynton Heights after lunch on Sunday was almost an invariable custom at Montfitchet.
"How shall I see her again?" was all the thought which ran in Lord Bracondale's head. "She won't be at a ball, but she might chance to have thought of the opera. It would be a place Mr. Brown would like to exhibit her at. I shall certainly go." Lady Anningford was tucked up on a sofa in her little sitting-room when her brother arrived at her charming house in Charles Street.
And from where Zara was trying to talk to the Duke she saw the woman shiver and look down provokingly and her husband stretch his long limbs out; and a sudden, unknown sensation of blinding rage came over her, and she did not hear a syllable of the Duke's speech. Meanwhile Lady Anningford had retired to a seat in a window with the Crow.
Tristram is awfully in love with her, isn't he?" Lady Anningford asked. "Yes," said Lady Ethelrida, "but, Anne, do you really think Tristram looks happy? I thought when he was not speaking his face seemed rather sad." "The Crow came down in the train with them," Lady Anningford announced. "I'll hear the whole exact impression of them after dinner and tell you. The Crow is always right."
"Hector, for Heaven's sake do not be so mad," said Lady Anningford, now really alarmed. "You can't go up and seize a woman from her partner in the middle of a waltz. You must be completely crazy! Dear boy, let us stay here by the door until the music finishes, and then I will speak to her before they can leave the room to sit out."
"What you do do, you mean, not what you would do, Minx!" said her aunt, laughing. And at this stage the shooters were seen advancing across the park, and the band of ladies, full of importance, descended to luncheon. Lady Anningford sat next the Crow and told him what they had decided, in strict confidence, of course. "We shall have the most delightful fun, Crow. I have thought it all out.
Lady Anningford joined Lady Ethelrida that night in her room, after they had seen Zara to hers, and they began at once upon the topic which was thrilling them all. "There is something the matter, Ethelrida, darling," Lady Anningford said.
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