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Miss Effingham seemed to be really glad to see him, and even Miss Boreham, Lady Baldock's daughter, was very gracious to him. For the Earl had been speaking well of his young member, and Phineas had in a way grown into the good graces of sober and discreet people. After lunch they were to ride; the Earl, that is, and Violet. Lady Baldock and her daughter were to have the carriage.
People went to her house, and stood about the room and on the stairs, talked to each other for half an hour, and went away. In these March days there was no crowding, but still there were always enough of people there to show that Lady Baldock was successful. Why people should have gone to Lady Baldock's I cannot explain; but there are houses to which people go without any reason.
"But as to Miss Effingham, it happens that our wishes jump together. I have asked her, and she has refused me. I don't even know where to find her to ask her again. If I went to Lady Baldock's house the servants would not let me in." "And whose fault is that?" "Yours partly, my lord. You have told everybody that I am the devil, and now all the old women believe it." "I never told anybody so."
The more respect you feel for the House, the more satisfaction you will have in addressing it when you have mastered this difficulty." The first person who spoke to Phineas at Lady Baldock's was Miss Fitzgibbon, Laurence's sister.
She did not show any sign of anger, or even of indifference at his approach. But still it was almost necessary that he should account for his search of her. "I have so longed to hear from you how you got on at Loughlinter," he said. "Yes, yes; and I will tell you something of it some day, perhaps. Why do you not come to Lady Baldock's?" "I did not even know that Lady Baldock was in town."
Lady Baldock's process of jumping upon her niece, in which I think the aunt had generally the worst of the exercise, went on for some time, but Violet of course carried her point. "If she marries him there will be an end of everything," said Lady Baldock to her daughter Augusta. "She has more sense than that, mamma," said Augusta.
Violet blushed as she remembered that she could not ask him to call at Lady Baldock's. "Good-bye, Mr. Finn," she said, giving him her hand. "I'm so very glad that they have chosen you; and I do hope that, as Madame Max says, they'll make you a secretary and a president, and everything else very quickly, till it will come to your turn to be making other people."
"I got your letter only this morning, and I have not seen her," said Lady Laura. "Indeed, I am so angry with her that I hardly wish to see her." Thursday was Lady Baldock's night, and Phineas went from Grosvenor Place to Berkeley Square. There he saw Violet, and found that she had heard of the accident. "I am so glad to see you, Mr. Finn," she said. "Do tell me; is it much?"
But then Lord Chiltern was not like anybody else in the world, and it was impossible to judge of him by one's experience of the motives of others. Shortly afterwards Phineas did call in Berkeley Square, and was shown up at once into Lady Baldock's drawing-room.
Would she not then be safer than she was now? As she sat alone struggling with her difficulties, she had not as yet forgotten to love him, nor was she as yet safe. Miss Effingham's Four Lovers One morning early in June Lady Laura called at Lady Baldock's house and asked for Miss Effingham. The servant was showing her into the large drawing-room, when she again asked specially for Miss Effingham.
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