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Updated: September 12, 2025
It is a queer thing if a man may not speak to a woman without people making mischief about it!" "That is between you and your mother. All I would like to know is that you will not swear at me in future and will treat me with more civility." I felt I could not continue the subject of his "friendship" with Lady Grenellen. The whole matter seemed so low.
Next day, Sunday, some of us went to church. Augustus insisted upon my going. He thought it would be a good opportunity of showing I was in Lady Tilchester's company, although what it could have mattered to the Harley villagers I do not know. He himself stayed behind with Lady Grenellen, he said, to take her for a walk in the woods.
Presently he looked up. "How silently you came, Comtesse! I did not hear you." "You were thinking deeply. Upon what grave matters of state?" "None at all. Do you know Lady Grenellen and your husband have not arrived? The brougham has with difficulty returned from the station after waiting until the train was in, and there was no sign of them."
My cousin Lady Grenellen is perhaps the most interesting among them, as she had the most histories." "Histories?" "Yes; her career has been one of riding for a series of falls, and escaping even a peck." "She is very lovely." "Oh yes, Cordelia is good-looking enough," he said, as though there was considerably more to add. I did not continue the subject further.
One or two of the men seemed very much amused, especially when he went and pushed himself into the sofa where Lady Grenellen was sitting and threw his arm along the back behind her head. I felt frozen. I could not have risen from my chair for a few moments. She, however, did not seem to mind at all; she merely laughed continuously behind her fan, the men helping her to ridicule Augustus.
Everything is rather shabby and stiffly arranged, and, except in the Duke's own special rooms, it looks as if no woman had been there for years. The Duke is a perfect host. He seemed delighted to see me, and soon let me know that his only interest in the party was on account of my presence among them. I felt soothed and flattered. Lady Grenellen was in tearing spirits.
That thought brought me back to the last bill I had tried to incur. What had been the result of my orders? Would the shop-people have told Lady Grenellen that a strange lady had sent her the tea-gowns? Would she have wondered about them and made inquiries? I had heard nothing further. I dismissed the subject and returned to my boudoir.
Would this be a good opportunity to get over what I had promised my mother-in-law to say to Augustus? Oh, it was an ugly moment. I told him, as simply as I could, that his mother was worried about him, fearing he had contracted a dangerous friendship with Lady Grenellen, and that I hoped he would make her mind at ease upon the subject. He came over to me and seized my wrists.
The ordinary women, like Babykins and Cordelia Grenellen, don't understand his subtle wit. They are generally in love with him, though. Cordelia was madly éprise last autumn; but he is as indifferent as possible, and does not trouble himself about any of them.
"How spiteful of you, when Lady Grenellen was trying to arrange for your future happiness!" "Nothing of the kind. You don't know Cordelia. She is only afraid I shall shut up Myrlton, or let it, and she amuses herself a good deal there. She thought if I had a rich wife her opportunities would oftener occur. I can only keep it open in the autumn now." "Oh, you are a wonderful company!" I laughed.
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