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At any rate, let that be as it may, we want you to believe how delighted we are to have you back again, and under such happy auspices." "And we want to say, too, dear," said Lady Bannerdale, while Lady Vayne nodded assentingly, "that we hope you have really come back to us, that you will be one of us and let us see a great deal of you.
There was nothing in the world she desired more than his happiness; and she knew that the marriage with Ida would be in every way desirable: the girl was one in a thousand, the Bannerdale estates almost joined Herondale; both she and her husband were fond of Ida, who, they knew, would prove a worthy successor to the present mistress of the Grange; but just because it seemed so desirable and Lord Edwin's heart was so passionately set upon it, the mother was anxious.
They drew a breath of relief, and nodded assentingly; and presently they made a general movement of departure. Lord Bannerdale lingered behind the others. "I won't ask the poor child to see me, Mr. Wordley," he said.
She grew pale and listless, and Lady Bannerdale, when she came to look her up, noticed the change in her, but was too tactful to make any remark upon it. "We have missed you so much, my dear," she said, affectionately. "Indeed, my husband has been quite fidgety and irritable so unlike him! and Edwin has been worse, if it were possible. Men are a great trouble, my dear Ida.
She is alone there in that huge palace of a place, for her father has gone back to London; and, though I was never very much taken with her, I could not help pitying her." "Why?" asked Ida, not absently now, but in her quiet, reserved manner. "She looks so well, actually so unhappy," replied Lady Bannerdale.
Lord Bannerdale charges me to tell you what his good wife has already written you that a home awaits you at the Court, where you will be received gladly and lovingly; and I am quite sure that the door of every house in the dale is wide open for you." Ida shrank in her chair.
"Ida rather thinks of going abroad," she said in a casual way at the dinner table. Lord Edwin was raising his wine glass to his lips, but arrested it half-way and set it down again; and his handsome face grew long and grave. "Oh! We shall miss her," remarked Lord Bannerdale, lamely, and avoiding looking in his son's direction.
"I was just saying to Miss Falconer that I wish Fate had made me a great financier instead of a country squire, Orme! By Jove! this place is a perfect er dream; and, when I think of my damp old house " "What frightful language!" said Stafford. Lord Bannerdale laughed. "If Miss Falconer had not been present, I might just as well have used the other word.
Ida shook hands with them all and rang for the tea. She was very quiet and subdued, but the little cold look of surprise with which she had at one time met their advances was now absent, and they could perceive that she was glad to see them. "Our joy in the good news is not altogether unselfish and disinterested, my dear Miss Ida," said Lord Bannerdale.
They will want this part of the house presently, and I have an idea of going away for a time; perhaps abroad," she added, though she had put the idea away from her until this moment, and it was only Lady Bannerdale's talk of Maude Falconer which started it again in her mind. Lady Bannerdale, looked alarmed. "Oh, don't do that, my dear!" she said.
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