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Updated: May 11, 2025
Did he ever attend any function that was not so stiff and dull that she invariably pined to depart from the moment of arrival? Again she read the invitation, recalling Lady Blythebury's gay words when last they had talked the matter over. "If only Una could come without the lion for once!" she had said. And she herself had almost echoed the wish. Sir Roland always spoilt everything. Well!
But he refused so steadily to fall a captive to Lady Blythebury's bow and spear, that he very speedily aroused her aversion. He soon realised that her influence over his wife was very far from benevolent towards himself, but, save that he persisted in declining all social invitations to Blythebury, he made no attempt to counteract the evil. In fact, it was not his custom to coerce her.
He denied her very little, though with regard to that little he was as adamant. But to Naomi his non-interference was many a time more galling than his interdiction. It was but seldom that she attempted to oppose him, and, save that Lady Blythebury's masquerade had been discussed between them for weeks, she would not have greatly cared for his refusal to attend it.
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