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Jeannette drew herself up and fixed him with a stony stare. "I am Miss Urmy," she answered frigidly. The start that Chilminster gave unconsciously affected the steering-wheel, and the car swerved sharply. "What are you doing? You're driving disgracefully!" exclaimed Jeannette. "I I beg your pardon," faltered Chilminster. "I thought you were her lady's maid." He felt he owed her that one.
I don't know how you feel about it, but if there's one thing I dislike it's tittle-tattle about my private affairs." "Horrid!" shivered Jeannette. "What are we to do?" Her tone was so hopeless, so full of tears, that it melted Chilminster. Susceptibilities that had been simmering within him for an hour past came unexpectedly to the boil; and as they did so the difficulty vanished.
Besides, she was rather ashamed of her maladroitness in mistaking Lord Chilminster for a common motor-man. It argued gaucherie. Perhaps he thought her unconventional call a violation of good taste considered her forward! He had plainly shown his annoyance about that obnox that embarrassing paragraph, and that fact spiked most of her batteries. He might, after all, prove to be quite
"And on you, too," she admitted. "What were you thinking how did you propose to phrase it?" "I?" he asked apprehensively. "To be quite frank. I haven't got as far as that. Never wrote to the papers in my life," he added pusillanimously. "But I can't," argued Jeannette. Her determination of two hours ago had vanished into the Ewigkeit. Chilminster had an inspiration.
"And you are Miss Jeannette L. Urmy, of Boston, Massachusetts, I believe." There was quite a long silence. "You knew all along," she flushed angrily. Chilminster raised a hand in protest. "Not until you told me." "Then why didn't you stop? You ought to have taken me back immediately you knew who I was." "So I would have if " "You mean you didn't believe me. You thought I was a lady's maid!"
Chilminster had met very few unmarried American girls, but like most Englishmen, he was aware of their capacity for resolution in most matters. Then, again, it was leap year. Suppose For a little while he did a lot of hard thinking. "I say," he called suddenly, looking over his shoulder. "Isn't there a Miss Urmy staying at the White House?"
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