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As for Miss Honnor Cunyngham oh, no! she was too far away she lived remote, isolated, apart she neither gave nor demanded sympathy or society she was sufficient unto herself alone. But why ask whether it were this one or that? Soon he would be forgotten by them all.
It was at the end of the penultimate act that an attendant brought round Miss Cunyngham and her mother the latter a handsome and distinguished-looking elderly lady, with white hair done up a la Marie Antoinette behind the scenes; and Nina, hanging some way back, could see them being presented to Miss Burgoyne. Nina was a little breathless and bewildered.
Then both Lady Adela Cunyngham and Lord Rockminster had been introduced to Miss Burgoyne in the New Theatre; if he told them, as he ought, on whom he was going to call, might they not want to accompany him and renew the acquaintance?
The fact was that a Free Church minister whom Sir Hugh Cunyngham had met somewhere had called at Aivron Lodge; as the custom of that part of the country is, he was invited to stay to dinner; he sat late, told many stories, and drank a good deal of whiskey, until it was not judged prudent to let him try to get his pony across the ford, even if hospitality had not demanded that he should be offered a room for the night; and then, when every one was thinking of getting away to bed, the worthy man must needs insist on having family worship, to which the servants had also to be summoned.
"Mebbe he'll no go mich deeper," Robert observed, calmly, but with his gray eyes keenly watching. "If I lose this fish," Lionel said, between his teeth, "I'll throw myself into the pool after him!" "You'd better not," said Miss Cunyngham, placidly, "for if Robert has to gaff you, you'll find it a very painful experience."
Occasionally they stopped to have a chat with more particular friends; and then Lionel would remain a little bit aside; though once or twice Lady Cunyngham chose to introduce him, and that pleased him, he hardly knew why. But at last she said, "Well, I think we must be getting home.
When he was shown into the drawing-room, he found only one occupant there it was Honnor Cunyngham herself, who was standing by a big portfolio set on a brass stand, and apparently engaged in arranging some large photographs.
Here was a disappointment! He wanted to tell her how he had got on, under her kind instruction this was his own explanation of the pang her absence caused him; but presently he had found another; for Lady Rosamund was grouping the people for her sketch; and what would the sketch be without Honnor Cunyngham in it? He made bold to say so. "Oh, you can't depend on Honnor," Lady Adela said.
And of what did they not talk during this careless, protracted, idling meal? Curiously enough, it was Nina, not Miss Burgoyne, who appeared to have chiefly impressed the two visitors on the preceding evening; and when Lady Cunyngham discovered that she was an old companion and fellow-student of Lionel's, she was much interested, and would have him tell her all about his experiences in Naples.
"I should like to have taken Miss Cunyngham some more reassuring message," he said, thoughtfully. "I suppose there is nothing either she or I could do?" And then he drew Maurice aside and spoke in an undertone. "Except perhaps this. I have heard that Moore has been playing a little high of late and has burned his fingers. I hope you won't let his mind be harassed by money matters.
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