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Updated: May 23, 2025
I FELT rather than saw that Miss Montague darted a quick glance of hidden meaning at her friends the chappies; their faces, in response, ceased to snigger and grew instantly sober. She took my card; then, in her alternative manner as the perfect lady, she presented me to her mother. "Dr. Cumberledge, mamma," she said, in a faintly warning voice. "A friend of Mr. Holsworthy's."
"Why Ivor should want to build a railway at all in this stupid, silly place," she said, as we sat in the veranda in the cool of evening, "I'm sure I can't imagine. We MUST go somewhere. This is maddening, maddening! Miss Wade Dr. Cumberledge I count upon you to discover SOMETHING for me to do.
"YOU are not hunting me down with the police?" he exclaimed, his neck held low and his forehead wrinkling. The voice the voice was Le Geyt's. It was an unspeakable mystery. "Hugo," I cried, "dear Hugo hunting you down? COULD you imagine it?" He raised his head, strode forward, and grasped my hand. "Forgive me, Cumberledge," he cried. "But a proscribed and hounded man!
But Lady Meadowcroft did not care for flowers which one could not wear in one's hair; and what was the good of dressing here, with no one but Ivor and Dr. Cumberledge to see one? She yawned till she was tired; then she began to grow peevish.
Cumberledge had resigned which made it most awkward for them to be travelling together by the same steamer. We passed through the Suez Canal and down the Mediterranean. All the time, Sebastian never again spoke to us.
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