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She could see how the Condrip pair pressed their brother's widow on the subject of Aunt Maud who wasn't, after all, their aunt; made her, over their interminable cups, chatter and even swagger about Lancaster Gate, made her more vulgar than it had seemed written that any Croy could possibly become on such a subject.
Kate, to be properly stiff for both of them, would therefore have had to be selfish, have had to prefer an ideal of behaviour than which nothing, ever, was more selfish to the possibility of stray crumbs for the four small creatures. The tale of Mrs. Lowder's disgust at her elder niece's marriage to Mr. Condrip had lost little of its point; the incredibly fatuous behaviour of Mr.
Great was the absurdity, too, that there should have come a day, by the end of the week, when it appeared that all Milly would have asked in definite "return," as might be said, was to be told a little about Lord Mark and to be promised the privilege of a visit to Mrs. Condrip.
If you want really to know, in fact, I dislike him as much as I dread him." "And yet don't think it dangerous to abuse him to me?" "Yes," Mrs. Condrip confessed, "I do think it dangerous; but how can I speak of him otherwise? I dare say, I admit, that I shouldn't speak of him at all. Only I do want you for once, as I said just now, to know." "To know what, my dear?"
Stringham explained, "that I don't see what Mrs. Condrip would gain." "By her being able to tell Kate?" Milly thought. "I only meant that I don't see what I myself should gain." "But it will have to come out that he knows you both some time." Milly scarce assented. "Do you mean when he comes back?"
If he were public she'd be willing, as I understand, to help him; if he were rich without being anything else she'd do her best to swallow him. As it is, she taboos him." "In short," said Mrs. Stringham as with a private purpose, "she told you, the sister, all about it. But Mrs. Lowder likes him," she added. "Mrs. Condrip didn't tell me that." "Well, she does, all the same, my dear, extremely."
"But that," her friend observed after a moment, "was for silence to Kate." "Yes but Mrs. Condrip would immediately have told Kate." "Why so? since she must dislike to talk about him." "Mrs. Condrip must?" Milly thought.
Lowder had established her niece was a question not wholly void, as yet, no doubt, of ambiguity though Milly was withal sure Lord Mark could exactly have fixed the point if he would, fixing it at the same time for Aunt Maud herself; but it was clear that Mrs. Condrip was, as might have been said, in quite another geography.
"It's the state of his fortunes." "And is that very bad?" "He has no 'private means, and no prospect of any. He has no income, and no ability, according to Mrs. Condrip, to make one. He's as poor, she calls it, as 'poverty, and she says she knows what that is." Again Mrs. Stringham considered, and it presently produced something. "But isn't he brilliantly clever?"
Condrip, taking a few minutes when Kate was away with one of the children, in bed upstairs for some small complaint, had suddenly, without its being in the least "led up to," broken ground on the subject of Mr. Densher, mentioned him with impatience as a person in love with her sister.
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