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Updated: June 13, 2025
Every woman is supposed to have little ways, don't you know. One has a little way of dropping her friends; another has a little way of not paying her dressmaker; another's little way is to take too much champagne. I hope Lady Hartfield's little way will be her devotion to her husband.
Thus it happened, to Lesbia's intense disgust, that her début was deferred till the verge of her twentieth birthday. It would never do, Lady Maulevrier told herself, for the edge to be taken off the effect which Lesbia's beauty was to make on society during Lord Hartfield's absence.
Steadman blenched under Lord Hartfield's steadfast look a look which questioned more searchingly than his words. 'Forty years, she repeated, with a faint laugh. 'Oh, dear no, sir, not a quarter as long.
Last season Lord Hartfield's absence had cast a cloud over the matrimonial horizon. He had been a traveller for more than a year Patagonia, Peru, the Pyramids, Japan, the North Pole society cared not where the fact that he was gone was all-sufficient. Bachelors a shade less eligible came to the front in his absence and became first favourites.
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