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Updated: June 14, 2025
Although Colonel Faversham left Golfney Place in a condition of intense dissatisfaction however, his sensations might have proved even more unenviable if he could have heard what Jimmy Clynesworth said to Sybil the same afternoon. "Sybil," said Jimmy, "at last I've seen her!" "And did she say she would come to-morrow?" asked his sister.
Get her and Lawrence to fix an evening this week if possible and then ask Miss Rosser." "Lawrence is not likely to come," suggested Carrissima. "Why not?" "Anyhow, he refused to allow Phoebe to go to Golfney Place!" "You will kindly do as I tell you," said the colonel. "Lawrence has more sense than you give him credit for."
Finally she held out her hand to Jimmy, who lingered over the process; but by and by they went down-stairs together, out into the street, and he put her into the car, tucking the fur rug about her before taking his seat by her side. Colonel Faversham was at church with Carrissima, looking forward during the Lessons to the afternoon, when he intended to reach Golfney Place by half-past three.
"Oh well," said Mark, "I had fallen into the habit of going to Golfney Place rather often that was before I went to Yorkshire as far back as January. Carrissima had the idea that I admired the girl; so I did, for that matter who wouldn't? But she could never have told Sybil that! She couldn't think anything of the sort without setting me down as a thorough-paced liar at the least."
Instead of hanging about at Duffield's, I thought I would go to Golfney Place." "What on earth for?" "Oh well, to see Bridget, you know," answered Mark, and once more he glanced at Carrissima, whose eyes met his own. "Who is Bridget?" asked Phoebe, whereupon Mark swung round to face her, his hands thrust deep in his jacket pockets, his face slightly flushed. "Miss Rosser," he said.
The net result of the interview with Carrissima was that Sybil did an extremely unusual thing. Although Jimmy strongly urged her to go to Golfney Place, she positively refused to gratify him. "Jimmy, I am very, very sorry," she insisted, "but I couldn't possibly go. Miss Rosser really doesn't seem to be quite respectable."
Colonel Faversham's thoughts at once flew back to that last time he had seen her in Golfney Place, when he had insisted that she should name the date for their marriage a week or two hence, as he had egregiously hoped! And she had seemed to promise that she would gratify him when he came the following morning, and he arrived with exuberant anticipations only to find the bird flown!
Bridget made no secret of the frequency and gratification of his former visits to Golfney Place, with the result that Colonel Faversham wondered occasionally whether she looked upon himself rather too paternally. He would then puff out his chest, tug his moustache and make various other efforts to convince her that he was still in the prime of life.
She could not resist the temptation of telling Lawrence this latest news about their father and Bridget, whose departure from Golfney Place made him quite genial. "The best thing I've heard for a long time," he exclaimed. "Let us hope we've all seen the last of her." Lawrence found points of interest in the situation.
"You wouldn't have got much information there," said Carrissima, "because Mr. Rosser left nothing. Bridget's money came from her mother." "How did you discover that?" asked Colonel Faversham. "Mark told me." "Has he seen Bridget?" the colonel exclaimed in some surprise, because he had spent the afternoon at Golfney Place and she had not for a wonder mentioned Mark's name.
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