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"And incidentally, and aside from giving a musical entertainment to your poor but worthy young friends, won't you go with me next week to enjoy some music yourself?" said Cameron to Patty, as he was about to take leave. "Where?" she asked. "I want to have a little opera party. Only half a dozen of us. The Hepworths will be our chaperons, and if you will go, I'll ask my cousin Marie and Mr.
"I will if I'm asked," said Patty. It was the day of Christine's home-coming, and Patty was busy as a bee preparing for the great event. The pretty apartment where the Hepworths were to live was all furnished and equipped, but Patty was looking after the dainty appointments of a party. Not a large party, only about a dozen of their own set.
'Where should a Carbury go to escape from London smoke, but to the old house? I am afraid Henrietta will find it dull. 'Oh no, said Hetta smiling. 'You ought to remember that I am never dull in the country. 'The bishop and Mrs Yeld are coming here to dine to-morrow, and the Hepworths. 'I shall be so glad to meet the bishop once more, said Lady Carbury.
There was nothing at all to recommend Caversham but its size. Eardly Park, the seat of the Hepworths, had, as a park, some pretensions. Carbury possessed nothing that could be called a park, the enclosures beyond the gardens being merely so many home paddocks. But the house of Eardly was ugly and bad.
She had endeavoured to get up some mild excitement with the bishop, but the bishop had been too plain spoken and sincere for her. The Primeros had been odious; the Hepworths stupid; the Longestaffes, she had endeavoured to make up a little friendship with Lady Pomona, insufferably supercilious. She had declared to Henrietta 'that Carbury Hall was very dull.
"Five years, that's a long time at our age. By the way, when are the Hepworths coming home?" "Next week; and we're planning the loveliest reception for them. You know their apartment is all ready, and we're going to have just a few people to supper there, the night they return." "Shall I be one of the few?" "Well, rather! The best man at the wedding must surely be at the home-coming.
"What IS the matter, Patty?" asked Nan. "Why do you sit up here alone, grinning like a Chessy cat, and giggling like a school-girl? Were the Hepworths so funny that you can't get over it?" And then Patty told Nan and her father the whole story of Kit Cameron and the telephone. Nan laughed in sympathy, but Mr. Fairfield looked a little dubious.
There were the Earl and Countess of Loddon and Lady Jane Pewet from Loddon Park, and the bishop and his wife, and the Hepworths. These, with the Carburys and the parson's family, and the people staying in the house, made twenty-four at the dinner table. As there were fourteen ladies and only ten men, the banquet can hardly be said to have been very well arranged.
"Certainly;" and she turned back the leaves of the book. "I went to a theatre party with my friends, the Hepworths; and afterward, we went to a little supper at a restaurant. I returned here about midnight. Must I prove this?" she added, smiling; "for I can probably do so, by the hotel clerk and by my maid. And, of course, by my friends who gave the party."
What's all WHAT about?" "The way you're treating me. The last time I saw you was last winter; at the Hepworths' wedding, to be exact. We were friends then, good friends. Then I came up here, yesterday. I threw your own flowers in at your window, and you came and smiled at me and said you were glad to see me. Didn't you?" "Yes," said Patty, in a faint little voice.
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