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'It's not precisely gushing, he said to himself, 'but she couldn't very well say more just yet. I think I am pretty safe. So the next morning he stepped from his hansom to the Langtons' door, leisurely and coolly enough. Perhaps his heart was beating a little faster, but only with excitement and anticipation of victory, for after Mabel's note he could feel no serious doubts.
In the meantime Mark was preparing to keep the appointment in the pleasantest and most unsuspecting frame of mind. After answering Caffyn's note he had met the Langtons as they came out of church and returned with them to lunch.
We are no more ashamed of them than the constitutional England of modern times is ashamed of her Langtons and De Montforts, her Sidneys and Hampdens. Our attitude in their regard goes beyond the reach of prose, and no adequate poetry comes to my mind.
'I think we have met before at Grosvenor Place, he began blandly; 'but I dare say you have forgotten. 'No, said Mark, 'I remember you very well; and besides, he added, with a significance that he hoped would not be thrown away, 'I have been hearing a good deal about you lately from the Langtons from Miss Langton, that is.
The Langtons' carriage was at the door when he arrived; and, as he came into the sitting-room on the second floor, he heard Dolly's clear little voice and paused, hidden by the screen at the door. She was reading to Vincent, who was lying back in an arm-chair; it was Hans Andersen's 'Story of the Shadow, a choice to which she had been guided by pure accident.
Humpage came to see Mabel: he had heard of the whole affair from the Langtons, and reproached himself not a little, now that he knew how utterly without foundation had been his bitterness against Mark. Mr. Humpage did not approach the question from the Langton point of view, and was not concerned that Mabel should have married a man who had turned out to be a nonentity.
Caffyn was now away at the Featherstones' country seat, somewhere in the Midlands, and Mark, who remained in town after their return from Germany, had taken the earliest opportunity of calling on the Langtons, when Mabel seemed more frankly glad to see him than he had dared to hope, and in one short half-hour the understanding between them had advanced several months.
'I'm sure, of that, said Vincent; 'and if I had nothing to keep me in town but I've not seen the Langtons yet, you know. And, by-the-bye, you can tell me where I shall find them now. I suppose they have not moved? 'Now I've got you! laughed Caffyn; 'if the Langtons are the only obstacle, you can't go and see them, for the very good reason that they're away abroad somewhere!
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