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George turned, and looked at her attentively. "The day you left I went to Hampton Court with the Lucys. Cathedine was there. Of course I flirted with him all the time, and as we were going through a wood near the river he said abominable things to me, and kissed me." Her brows were drawn defiantly. Her eyes seemed to be riveted to his. He was silent a moment, the colour dyeing his pale face deep.
George remembered; he hated the people she was to be with, and instinct told him that Cathedine would be there. A rush of miserable worry overcame him. Ought he to be leaving her? Then, in the darkness of the hall, he caught sight of a card lying on the table. Her card! Amazement made him almost dizzy, while the man at his arm explained. "Her ladyship called just after luncheon.
"Tell me the names again, dear lady" she bent forward, and laid her hand affectionately on Mrs. Allison's knee. "Your parties are always a work of art." Mrs. Allison flushed a little, as though she liked the compliment, and ran laughingly through the names. "Lord and Lady Maxwell." "Ah!" said Marcella, "the least said about them the soonest mended. Go on." "Lord and Lady Cathedine."
Allison, Lady Cathedine, and Madeleine Penley in front, escorted by the white-haired Sir Philip; and behind, Lady Tressady, between Harding Watton and Lord Cathedine. "Cathedine!" cried Naseby, staring at the group. "Cathedine been to church?" "For the purpose, I suppose, of disappointing poor Laura, who might have hoped to get rid of him," said Betty, sharply. "No! if I were Mrs.
Oh, the dulness of life at Ferth during the last three weeks! She thought of her amusements in town, of the country houses where they might now be staying but for George's pride, of Cathedine, even; and a rush of revolt and self-pity filled her mind.
Madeleine Penley gazed after them. Betty, who had a miserable feeling that the girl was betraying herself to men like Harding Watton or Lord Cathedine, a feeling which was, however, the creation of her own nervous excitement, tried to draw her away. But Lady Madeleine did not seem to understand. She stood mechanically buttoning and unbuttoning her long gloves.
Lady Cathedine fell back, and George saw her cross the landing, and drop into a chair beside an old general, who was snoozing in a peaceful corner till his daughters should see fit to take him home. The old general took no notice of her, and she sat there, playing with her fan, her rather prominent grey eyes staring out of her white face.
But the thought of being kept through August drives him desperate already. Ah! here they are plagues of the human race! " and she waved an accusing hand towards the incoming stream of gentlemen. "Now, I'll prophesy, and you watch. Lady Tressady will make two friends here Harding Watton oh! I forgot, he's her cousin! and Lord Cathedine. Mark my words.
I heard him speak to his wife to-night in a way for which he ought to be kicked down Oxford Street and, in general, I should say that it takes the shine off a person to be much seen with Cathedine." The calm attitude the voice, just a shade interrogative, exasperated Letty still more. She, too, sat down, her cheeks flaming. "I am extremely obliged to you! You really couldn't have been more frank.
But if you'll give up going to see her well, perhaps I'll see what can be done to meet your wishes; though, of course, I think all you say about Harding and Lord Cathedine is just unreasonable prejudice!" George was silent.
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