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"Then go and get a suitcase packed, and come back with us to Cornbridge." He would not hear of it at first; but Lady Linden had made up her mind, and she was a masterful woman. "You'll come?" "Really, I think I had better not. You see " "I don't see! Marjorie, go out into the garden and smell the flowers. Keep away from the drains.... You'll come?" she repeated, when the girl had gone out.
I find there is a train at a quarter-past three. I shall come by that to Cornbridge Station. "Believe me, "Yours gratefully and affectionately, "JOAN MEREDYTH." There was a subdued excitement about Lady Linden during the Thursday and the Friday, and an irritating air of secretiveness. "Foolish, foolish young people!
"I should not describe Lady Linden as a pleasant person," he decided, "still, her information will prove of the utmost value to me. On the whole I am glad I went." He felt satisfied; he had discovered all that was discoverable, so far as Cornbridge was concerned. "Married in eighteen, June of eighteen," he muttered, "at Marlbury, Dorset. I'll bet she wasn't!
He was not built to be self-centred. For two days and two nights he bore with Hurst Dormer and its shadows and its solitude, and then he called out the car and motored over to Cornbridge. "Oh, it's you," said her ladyship. "I suppose you got my letter?" "Yes; I had it sent on to me." "It's a pity you don't stay at home now and again." "Perhaps I shall in future." She looked at him.
There was happiness at Cornbridge, and after Cornbridge Hurst Dormer seemed darker and more solitary than ever. It was while she had been talking to Hugh that Marjorie had made up her mind. "I am going to tell Joan the whole truth, the whole truth," she thought. And Hugh was scarcely out of the house before Marjorie sat down to write her letter to Joan.
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