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"No, I am not sorry, I am very glad to be back though my aunts have been great dears to me." "I'll bet anything Annette isn't glad to be back after the Langmoors!" said Nora grimly. Connie laughed. "She'll soon settle in. What do you think?" She slipped her arm into her cousin's. "I'm coming down to breakfast!" "You're not! I never heard such nonsense! Why should you?" Connie sighed.
Nora understood there were invitations to the Tamworths and others. Mr. Sorell had reported that the Langmoors wished to carry their niece with them on a round of country-house visits in the autumn, and that Connie had firmly stuck to it that she was due at Oxford for the beginning of term. "Why didn't you go," said Nora, half scoffing "with all those frocks wasting in the drawers?"
His pride would not let him sue as a pauper; and of course the Langmoors to whom she was going he understood from Scarfedale, would take good care she did not throw herself away. Quite right too. Very likely the Tamworths would capture her; and Bletchley was quite a nice fellow. When he did see her, what could they talk about? Radowitz?
"There's a great deal of talk about her, as perhaps you know. She's very much admired. The Langmoors are making a great fuss about her, and people say she'll have all their money as well as her own some day not to speak of the old aunts in Yorkshire. I shouldn't wonder if the Tamworths had their eye upon her. They're not really well off."
The Langmoors would certainly have her out of Oxford at the earliest possible moment and small blame to them. In all this he reasoned as a man of his class and antecedents was likely to reason only with a bias against himself. To capture Connie, through Otto, before she had had any other chances of marriage, seemed to him a mean and dishonorable thing. If he had only time time to make his career!
During the week she had been staying in the Langmoors' house, she had resigned herself to the fact that her Aunt Langmoor as it seemed to her was a very odd and hardly responsible creature, the motives of whose existence she did not even begin to understand. But both her aunt and Lord Langmoor had been very kind to their new-found niece.
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