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I think it is horrid of him sitting like that talking to Laura, don't you?" "A viper, Laura," growled the Crow. "She's trying to get him again in the rebound." "I cannot imagine why women cannot leave other women's husbands alone. They are hateful creatures, most of them." "Natural instinct of the chase," said Colonel Lowerby. But Lady Anningford flashed. "You are a cynic, Crow."
"You may think yourself very wise, Crow, and so you are," Lady Anningford retorted severely, "but you don't know anything about love. When a man is in love, even if he were Machiavelli himself, it would be bound to show in his eye if one looked long enough." "Then your plan, my dear Queen Anne, is to look," the Crow said, smiling. "For my part, I want to see how the other pair have got on.
Devlyn, to whom her father had sent her an introduction, had been kind enough to tell them what to do and how to see a little of London. She was going to a ball to-night. The first real ball she had ever been to in her life, she said, ingenuously. And Lady Anningford looked at her and each moment fell more under her charm.
"Well, I shall probably hear all about it from Ethelrida herself, now that we are alone. I am so glad I decided to stay with the dear girl until Wednesday, and you will have to wait till then, too, Crow." "As ever, I am at your orders," he grunted, and lighting a cigar, he subsided into a great chair to read the papers, while Lady Anningford went on to the saloon.
He would have no more servants' messages! and there he was, with a bitter smile on his face, when Lady Anningford, coming from her room beyond, stopped to talk. She wondered at his being there a very different state of things to her own with her dear old man, she remembered, who, after the wedding day, for weeks and weeks would hardly let her out of his sight!
Brown how Fordy's pony ran away in the park this morning, and how plucky he had been about it." "They are rather nice infants," said Hector. "I should like you to see them," and he looked at Theodora. "Mayn't we have them down, Anne?" Lady Anningford adored her offspring, and was only too pleased to show them; but she said: "Oh, wait a moment, Hector, until some of these people have gone.
He did not seem to be even addressing Ethelrida. What could it be? "I believe we have made a mistake after all, Crow," Lady Anningford said disappointedly. "Look he is quite unmoved."
And Lady Anningford, who had no idea that she had spent the afternoon with the financier, but believed she had religiously written letters alone, wondered to herself what on earth made Ethelrida look so joyous and not the least fatigued, as most of the others were. She really got prettier, she thought, as she grew older, and was always the greatest dear in the whole world.
But with her usual practical forethought, Lady Anningford had already taken time by the forelock, and asked that one of the motors, going in to Tilling Green on a message, should bring back all the bales of bright and light-colored merinos and nunscloths the one large general shop boasted of. And, amidst screams of delighted excitement from the girls, the immense parcel was presently unpacked.
She was the wife of Josiah Brown over there, smiling and complacent to see his belonging dancing with a marquis! "Hector, dearest, what is the matter?" exclaimed Lady Anningford, coming up at that moment to her brother's side. She was with Colonel Lowerby, and they had made a tour of the rooms on purpose to see Theodora. "You appear ready to murder some one. What has happened?"
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