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Lady Cromarty sighed, and then her thin lips tightened. "You are hopeless, Reggie. I sometimes feel as though I were here merely as matron of a home for lost Cromartys! Well, I hope your confidence won't be abused. I confess I don't feel very comfortable about it myself." "Well, well," said Sir Reginald. "My own eyes are open too, I assure you.
Ned looked at her and she broke into a laugh. "Well," she said, "I suppose we both have a pretty good idea. She's somebody's something Alfred Cromarty's, I believe; though of course her mother may have fibbed, for she doesn't look much like the Cromartys. Anyhow that pretty well puts her out of the question." "Why?"
So far they had talked casually on any indifferent subject that came to hand, but now his manner grew a little more intimate. "Are you going to stay on with the Cromartys long?" he asked. "I am wondering myself," she confessed. "I hope you will," he said bluntly. "It is very kind of you to say so," she said smiling at him a little shyly. "I mean it.
She looked a little surprised. "Oh, you know exactly. Almost just four months ago, wasn't it?" He nodded, but said nothing, and she went on: "From the very first it had seemed very strange that I had never heard a word about the Cromartys from mother, and as soon as I got to Keldale and met Lady Cromarty, I felt sure there was something wrong. I mean that I wasn't an ordinary distant relation.
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