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"I would have done a great deal, if it had been possible," Mark continued, "to prevent Bridget from marrying Colonel Faversham, if only for your sake; but as to Jimmy, I don't care a rap." "Neither do I," said Carrissima. "If he can't take care of himself after all his experiences," Mark insisted, "the Lord knows who can. I consider Jimmy fair game."
Lawrence Faversham, barrister-at-law, was thirty-two years of age, and rather short, although he always held his head in the air as if he were doing his best to appear taller. Hearing the street door bell ring, Mrs. Lawrence Faversham waylaid Carrissima on the stairs and insisted on taking her to gaze at little Victor, aged two, peacefully sleeping in the nursery.
"By the bye," he asked, turning to Carrissima, "you haven't discovered Miss Rosser's address yet?" "I haven't tried," was the answer, as Colonel Faversham's cough became troublesome. "You ought to get Mark to give you something for it," suggested Lawrence, and the colonel was explaining that it was merely a tickling in his throat, when, opportunely, Mark Driver entered the room.
"I thought the best plan," he said, "was to have it out without any waste of time." "Oh dear!" murmured Carrissima. "Have what out?" "I am going to speak quite plainly " "Why in the world shouldn't you?" "I want to know," said Mark, "why you of all people told Sybil Clynesworth well, what you did tell her?" "What did I?" asked Carrissima. "It amounts to this.
By the time dessert was reached she began to show symptoms of recovering from her not unnatural embarrassment; Jimmy's glass was full. He drank champagne this evening. "I was wondering," said Mark, when the four were left by themselves, "whether I might be of some use before the evening ended. Carrissima suggested an accident."
The immediate question was: Should she take any notice of Bridget Rosser, or leave her to her own devices? In the ordinary course of things, Carrissima would scarcely have hesitated. If she had been told by anybody else that Bridget was living alone in London, doubtless she would have lost very little time in finding her way to Number 5, Golfney Place.
If it had not been for Carrissima, the temptation to meet Bridget's apparently "coming-on disposition" half way would have become more acute, and without any idea of a closer relationship, he might perchance have gone farther over night than he would have thought desirable the next morning.
Although Carrissima had little reason to be prejudiced in Miss Rosser's favour, she was the possessor of an elementary sense of justice, and, moreover, it was always a satisfaction to contradict her brother. "I don't admit you have any right to say that," she protested. "I saw a great deal of her at Crowborough " "Five years ago!"
Or rather, I should like her if she would let the foolish colonel go. Oh dear, I really ought not to talk in this way!" "Upon my word," said Mark, "I believe she scarcely realizes what she is doing." "Then you admit she is doing it!" "A kind of youthful irresponsibility," he returned. "That accounts for everything." "You seem to forget she is older than I am," said Carrissima.
Jimmy, for his own part, had scarcely attempted to explain the discrepancy between Sybil's story and his own ideal of Bridget. Otherwise he might, perhaps, have come to the conclusion that Carrissima had exaggerated, while Sybil had added a little more ghastly colour. Sybil was sometimes given to that kind of trick.
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