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"I suppose you haven't the least idea who I am," Lady Lescelles said, as she settled herself in Anna's most comfortable chair. "I have heard of you, of course," Anna answered hesitatingly, "but " "You cannot imagine what I have come to see you about. Well, I am Nigel Ennison's sister!" "Oh!" Anna said. "Nigel is like all men," Lady Lescelles continued. "He is a sad blunderer.
I can assure you, I wouldn't be single again for worlds. One gets a lot more fun married." "Our cases are scarcely similar," Anna remarked. "Why not?" Lady Lescelles answered. "You are one of the Hampshire Pellissiers, I know, and your family are quite as good as ours. As for money, Nigel has tons of it."
"To be frank with you, Lady Lescelles, when your brother asked me the other day to be his wife I was under a false impression as regards his relations with some other person. I know now that I was mistaken." "That sounds more promising," Lady Lescelles declared. "May I tell Nigel to come and see you again? I am not here to do his love-making for him, you know. I came to see you on my own account."
I had two offers of marriage from men I liked very much indeed, but it never occurred to me to listen to either of them. You see I am rather obstinate. At last I tried a dramatic agent, and got on the music hall stage." "Well, you can't say you're a failure there," Lady Lescelles remarked, smiling. "I've been to hear you lots of times."
"But for you Dad would never have let me marry Lescelles. He was only a younger son, and you know what trouble we had. I am with you through thick and thin, Nigel." He kissed her, and handed her into the carriage. Then he went back to his rooms and lit a cigar. "There are two things to be done," he said softly to himself. "The first is to discover what she is here for, and where she is staying.
And beyond this, Lady Lescelles, as you must know, recent events have set a good many people's tongues wagging, and I am quite determined to live down all this scandal before I think of marrying any one." "I am sure," Lady Lescelles said, gently, "that the last consideration need not weigh with you in the least. No one in the world is beyond the shaft of scandal we all catch it terribly sometimes.
"I am sure you will marry Nigel sooner or later, and then all your work will be thrown away." Anna shook her head. "If I were to marry now," she said, "it would be with a sense of humiliation. I should feel that I had been obliged to find some one else to fight my battles for me." "What else," Lady Lescelles murmured, "are men for?" Anna laughed.
Don't you care for Nigel at all?" Anna was silent for a moment or two. Lady Lescelles, graceful, very fashionably but quietly dressed, leaned back and watched her with shrewd kindly eyes. "I like your brother better than any other man I know," Anna said at last. "Well, I don't think you told him as much as that, did you?" Lady Lescelles asked. "I did not," Anna answered.
"I have been more fortunate than I deserved," Anna answered, "but I only meant to stay upon the music hall stage until I could get something better. I am rehearsing now for a new play at the 'Garrick' and I have quite made up my mind to try and make some sort of position for myself as an actress." "Do you think it is really worth while?" Lady Lescelles asked gently.
"Thank you very much," Anna said. "It is very nice of you to come, but I do not think for the present, at any rate, I could give him any other answer. I do not intend to be married, or to become engaged just at present." "Well, why not?" Lady Lescelles asked, smiling. "I can only be a few years older than you, and I have been married four years.
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