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There were other visitors to Mallowe Court travelling by the 2:30 from Paddington, but they were much smarter people than Miss Fox-Seton, and they were put into a first-class carriage by a footman with a cockade and a long drab coat.
When Miss Fox-Seton descended from the twopenny bus as it drew up, she gathered her trim tailor-made skirt about her with neatness and decorum, being well used to getting in and out of twopenny buses and to making her way across muddy London streets.
Lady Maria commented upon that fact to Miss Fox-Seton when they met in her bedroom late that night. Lady Maria liked to talk and be talked to for half an hour after the day was over, and Emily Fox-Seton's admiring interest in all she said she found at once stimulating and soothing. Her Ladyship was an old woman who indulged and inspired herself with an Epicurean wisdom.
Ralph, a little later, looked across the room at Emily Fox-Seton bending over Lady Agatha and the knitting, as she gave her instructions. "What a good-natured creature that is!" she said. Lord Walderhurst lifted his monocle and inserted it in his unillumined eye. He also looked across the room.
"If we were not in Debrett and Burke, one might be reserved about such matters," poor Lady Claraway wrote; "but what is one to do when all the world can buy one's daughters' ages at the book-sellers'?" Miss Fox-Seton had seen Lady Agatha's portrait at the Academy and the way in which people had crowded about it.
"But I am really," she protested. "I really am. I was married last year. I was Emily Fox-Seton. Perhaps you remember." She was not flighty or indignant. Her frank face was only a little more troubled than it had been before. She looked straight into his eyes without a doubt of his presently believing her. Good heavens! if She walked to the writing-table and picked up a number of letters.
Mamma is delighted with him. I am going home to-morrow." Emily made a little swoop forward. "You always liked him?" she said. Lady Agatha's delicate mounting colour was adorable. "I was quite unhappy," she owned, and hid her lovely face in her hands. In the morning-room Lord Walderhurst was talking to Lady Maria. "You need not give Emily Fox-Seton any more clothes, Maria," he said.
After she had taken her early tea in the morning, Emily Fox-Seton lay upon her pillows and gazed out upon the tree-branches near her window, in a state of bliss. She was tired, but happy. How well everything had "gone off"! How pleased Lady Maria had been, and how kind of Lord Walderhurst to ask the villagers to give three cheers for herself! She had never dreamed of such a thing.
Agatha was conscious that Miss Fox-Seton had seen at Mallowe she could never quite understand how it had seemed so naturally to happen a phase of her feelings which no one else had seen before. Bruce had seen it since, but only Bruce. There had actually been a sort of confidence between them a confidence which had been like intimacy, though neither of them had been effusive.
It's amazing how girls dress now." "I wish I had such clothes," answered Lady Maria, and she chuckled again. "She's got beautiful feet." "She's got Louis Quinze heels," returned his Lordship. At all events, Emily Fox-Seton thought Miss Brooke seemed to intend to rather keep out of his way and to practise no delicate allurements.
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