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He was not so chivalrous as I thought." A gleam of malice shone for a moment in Mrs. Lockyard's eyes, and just a hint of it was perceptible in her voice as she made response. "One has to make allowances sometimes. All men are not made after the pattern of your chosen lord and master. He, I grant you, is hard as granite and about as impassive.
"She would never do that surely," said Phil, with an involuntary glance at Vivian Caryl who had just entered. "If you are talking about my fiancé, I think it more than probable that she would," the latter remarked. "Mrs. Lockyard's place is just across the river, I understand? Shall I punt over and fetch Doris?" "No, no!" broke in his hostess anxiously. "I am sure she wouldn't come if you did.
She had met this young man often at Mrs. Lockyard's house, where he was invariably referred to as "the little Fricker boy." She threw a furtive glance at Caryl, but he had plainly noticed nothing. With an uneasy sense of shame she slipped the note into her glove. She perused it on the earliest opportunity.
But what puzzles me " He broke off. They had reached the open French window that led into Mrs. Lockyard's drawing-room. He stood aside for her to enter. "Well?" she said, as she passed him. "What is this weighty problem?" He followed her in. "What puzzles me," he said, "is how a girl with your natural independence and love of freedom can endure to remain unmarried."
In fact, I took no interest in his doings till I found that you were in Mrs. Lockyard's set. That, I admit, was something of a shock. And then when I found that you liked the man " "Oh, don't!" she broke in. "Don't! I was mad ever to tolerate him. Let me forget it! Please let me forget it!" She spoke passionately, and as if her emotion drew him he turned fully round to her.
Finally, after a long and quite unprofitable inspection, he turned aside to investigate a boathouse under the willows on Mrs. Lockyard's side of the stream. He found the door unlocked, and discovered within a somewhat dilapidated punt. This, after considerable exertion, he managed to drag forth and finally to run into the water.
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