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And when I said, 'Yes, ideally so, and that they never want to be dragged away from Bracondale, he said, so awfully sadly, 'Oh, I dare-say; but then they have children. It is too pitiful to hear him, after only a week! What can it be? What can have happened in the time?" "It is not since, Anne," Ethelrida said, beginning to unfasten her dress. "It was always like that.
The moon had risen pure and full, she could see it through the windows. The night was soft and warm, and when the last sips of coffee and liqueurs were finished it was still only nine o'clock. On an occasion when no personal excitement was stirring Captain Fitzgerald he probably would have hesitated about approving of Theodora spending the entire evening alone with Lord Bracondale.
At last she felt she must wake must realize that she was not a happy princess, but Theodora, who must live her dull life and this and this where was it leading her to? So she clasped her hands together suddenly, and she said: "But do you know we have grown serious, and I asked you to amuse me, Lord Bracondale!"
"You would find it all much too monotonous," she answered. "You would tire of them after the first time. And you could if you liked, too, because I suppose you are free, being a man, and can choose your own life," and she sighed unconsciously. And there came to Hector Bracondale the picture of her life sacrificed, no doubt, to others' needs.
Lord Bracondale was perfectly conversant with all moves in the game; he knew how to talk to a woman so that she alone could feel the strength of his devotion, while his demeanor to the world seemed the least compromising. Theodora had not spoken for a moment after his first speech. It made her heart beat too fast.
He added a postscript: "I want you to meet my mother and my sister in London. Will you let me arrange it? I think you will like Anne. And oh, more than all I want you to come to Bracondale. Write me your answer that I may have your words to keep always." Mrs. McBride came round in the morning to the private hotel in the Avenue du Bois, to ask the exact time of the dinner-party, she said.
Lord Bracondale was late: had not the post come in just as he was starting, and brought him a letter, whose writing, although he had never seen it before, filled him with thrills of joy. Theodora had found time during the day to read and reread his epistle, and to kiss it more than once with a guilty blush.
He even remembered the name of Bracondale had he not been a grocer's assistant in the small town of Bracondale for a whole year in his apprenticeship days? "Papa wants us to breakfast to-day with him at Henry's for you to meet some of them," Theodora said, with more confidence. Josiah had taken a second egg and his frown was gone.
"Is that Lord Bracondale's mother the lady with the coronet of plaits and the huge white aigrette with the diamond drops in it?" Theodora asked. Her voice was schooled, and had no special tones in it. But oh, how she was thrilling with interest and excitement underneath! "Yes, that is Lady Bracondale.
Then, last of all, came Lord Bracondale and it was when he was presented that Theodora first began to take an interest in the party. He had been educated at Eton and Oxford, served for some time in the Fourth Lifeguards, been unpaid attaché at St. Petersburg, was patron of five livings, and sat in the House of Lords as Baron Bracondale; creation, 1505; seat, Bracondale Chase. Brothers, none.
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