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Lady Dumbello was well aware that she had triumphed, and that her mother's letter had been invaluable to her. But it had been used, and therefore she did not read it again. She ate her breakfast in quiet comfort, looking over a milliner's French circular as she did so; and then, when the time for such an operation had fully come, she got to her writing-table and answered her mother's letter.
He therefore had before him two, if not three, clear months in which to manoeuvre, to declare his purposes, and prepare for the future events of his life. As he resolved on a certain morning that he would say his first tender word to Lady Dumbello that very night, in the drawing-room of Lady de Courcy, where he knew that he should meet her, a letter came to him by the post.
"This is so kind of you, Lord Dumbello," said that lady, coming up to him and shaking his hand warmly; "so very kind of you to come to my poor little tea-party." "Uncommonly pleasant, I call it," said his lordship. "I like this sort of thing no trouble, you know." "No; that is the charm of it: isn't it? no trouble, or fuss, or parade. That's what I always say.
But when it was ascertained that the two were to be there together, her good-natured friends had acknowledged that she was a very clever woman. To have either Mr Palliser or Lady Dumbello would have been a feather in her cap; but to succeed in getting both, by enabling each to know that the other would be there, was indeed a triumph.
People will look on it as a settled thing, when it is not settled and very probably may not be settled; and that will do the poor girl harm. She is very much admired; there can be no doubt of that; and Lord Dumbello " The archdeacon opened his eyes still wider.
"No, mother; had I done so, it would have been for love of you only for love of you." "I would not for worlds that you should do that." "Let her have Dumbello; she will make an excellent wife for him, just the wife that he will want. And you, you will have been so good to her in assisting her to such a matter." "But, Ludovic, I am so anxious to see you settled." "All in good time, mother!"
Lady Lufton was beginning to fear that her plan would not work, but she made up her mind that she would learn the truth then and there at least as far as her son was concerned. "Oh, yes; quite so; if it is equal to her with which she dances," said Lady Lufton. "Quite equal, I should think unless it be that Dumbello is longer-winded than I am."
"Ah, do," said the duke. "I'll not keep you five minutes." And at six o'clock on the following afternoon the two were closeted together in the duke's private room. "I don't suppose there is much in it," began the duke, "but people are talking about you and Lady Dumbello." "Upon my word, people are very kind."
He came in late, and at the moment Lord Dumbello was moving slowly up the room, with Griselda on his arm, while Lady Lufton was sitting near looking on with unhappy eyes. And then Griselda sat down, and Lord Dumbello stood mute at her elbow. "Ludovic," whispered his mother, "Griselda is absolutely bored by that man, who follows her like a ghost. Do go and rescue her."
What if Lord Dumbello had gone to the Continent resolved to send back from thence some reason why it was impossible that he should make Miss Grantly his wife? Such things had been done before now by men in his rank. Whether or no Mrs. Tickler had been the letter-writing wellwisher from Littlebath, or had induced her friend to be so, it did seem manifest to him, Dr. Grantly, that Mrs.
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