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Updated: June 19, 2025
I have taken Lenchester House for a year. My, it would be good to see their faces!" Maraton shook his head. "Thank you very much, Mrs. Bollington-Watts," he said, "but my visit to England is one of business only. To be frank with you, I have no social existence, nor any desire to cultivate one." "But you know Lady Elisabeth," the little woman protested.
Yet of course it has made a difference always." "I should like to hear it," she whispered. "The two great events of my life," he said, "came together. I was engaged to be married to the Duchess of Lenchester at the same time that I found myself forced to sever my connexion with the Liberal party. You know, of course, that the Duchess has always been a great figure in politics.
There is another reason which makes my reappearance in public life impossible. Not even your subtlety, Borrowdean, could remove it. I do not even wish it removed. I mean to live my own life, and not to be pitchforked back into politics to suit the convenience of a few adventurous office-seekers, and the Duchess of Lenchester!" "Mannering!" But Mannering had gone.
"Whether I am or not," she answered, "what business is it of yours?" "I will tell you, if you like," he answered. "In fact, I think it would be better. It has been the one desire of my life to marry the Duchess of Lenchester myself." She smiled at him scornfully. "Come," she said, "let me give you a little advice. Give up the idea.
It is true that your weapon was the pen, but you reached a great public. The country to-day considers you the champion of Free Trade." "Pass on," Mannering interrupted, brusquely. "All this is wasted time!" "A smaller meeting," Borrowdean continued, "was held with a view of discussing the means whereby you could be persuaded to rejoin us. At that meeting the Duchess of Lenchester was present."
Mannering smiled. "What about the paragraph?" he asked. "It is just this," Richard answered, reading. "'The Duchess of Lenchester and Miss Clara Mannering have arrived at Claridge's from the South of Italy." Mannering looked at him keenly. "I am curious to know which part of that announcement you find so interesting," he said. "Certainly not the latter part, sir," the young man answered.
"You may as well know everything," she said. "The Duchess of Lenchester came in and found me very unhappy this morning. I told her everything, and she offered to lend me the money. I told her then that it was only three hundred pounds. I thought that was all I owed." "Have you made any other confidants?" Mannering asked. "No!" "You will return the Duchess's cheque," Mannering said.
The very idea that at any moment it might be swept away sent a cold shiver through her. Borrowdean had a trick of speaking convincingly. And besides "Who is the woman?" she asked. "I had been wondering," Borrowdean said, "whether it would not be better to tell you, so that you might be on your guard. The woman is the Duchess of Lenchester." She stared at him. "You're in earnest?" "Absolutely!"
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