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Had she been worldly wise, she would have accepted the little compliment implied in Lady Lufton's first rebuke, and then have held her peace. "Oh, yes; the Harold Smiths! They are irresistible, I know. How could any man refuse to join a party, graced both by Mrs. Harold Smith and Mrs. Proudie even though his duty should require him to stay away?" "Now, mamma " said Justinia.
"It is as well that it should be over, Justinia. As those are her thoughts about Mr. Robarts, it is quite as well that we should know them. Even for all that I owe to her, and all the love I bear to you, I will not come to this house if I am to hear my husband abused not into any house." "My dearest Fanny, we all know what happens when two angry people get together."
"So, Fanny, we shall again be so unfortunate as to miss Mr. Robarts," said her ladyship. "Yes. Did you ever know anything so unlucky? But he had promised Mr. Sowerby before he heard that you were coming. Pray do not think that he would have gone away had he known it." "We should have been sorry to keep him from so much more amusing a party." "Now, Justinia, you are unfair.
Had Lady Lufton been moderate in her remarks Mrs. Robarts would not have had a word to say. "My husband may have been ill-judged," she said, "but he is no hypocrite." "Very well, my dear, I dare say you know better than I; but to me it looks extremely like hypocrisy; eh, Justinia? "Oh, mamma, do be moderate." "Moderate! That's all very well.
It was all horrible, and Lady Lufton was sitting there with a black brow and an uneasy heart. As regarded our poor parson, we may say that in this matter he was blameless, except that he had hitherto lacked the courage to execute his friend's commission. "What is it, Fanny?" said Lady Lufton, as soon as the door was opened; "I should have been down in half an hour, if you wanted me, Justinia."
"It is Justinia," she said to herself; and her heart became disturbed at the idea of again discussing the morning's adventure. "What am I to do," she had said to herself before, "if she wants me to beg her pardon? I will not own before her that he is in the wrong." And then the door opened for the visitor made her entrance without the aid of any servant and Lady Lufton herself stood before her.
This was a stretch on the part of Lady Meredith put in with much good-nature, no doubt; but still a stretch; for no one had supposed that the bishop would remain at Chaldicotes for the Sunday. "How do you do, Fanny?" said Lady Lufton, getting up. "I am not going to scold her; and I don't know how you can talk such nonsense, Justinia. Of course, we are very sorry not to have Mr.
"And you are to take his work in the school; you and Mrs. Podgens. What with his curate and his wife and Mrs. Podgens, I don't see why he should come back at all." "Oh, mamma," said Justinia, "pray, pray don't be so harsh to her." "Let me finish it, my dear; oh, here I come. 'Tell her ladyship my whereabouts. He little thought you'd show me this letter." "Didn't he?" said Mrs.
She is just the girl that Justinia will like to have with her." "Exactly," said Lord Lufton. "She will do exceedingly well for Justinia." Now this was not good-natured on the part of Lord Lufton; and his mother felt it the more strongly, inasmuch as it seemed to signify that he was setting his back up against the Lufton-Grantly alliance.
"What had I better do, Justinia? how had I better tell her?" And then the two ladies put their heads together, bethinking themselves how they might best deprecate the wrath of Lady Lufton. It had been arranged that Mrs. Robarts should go back to the parsonage after lunch, and she had persisted in her intention after it had been settled that the Merediths were to stay over that evening.
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