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One of the girls was unhappy, as she was in love with a young fisherman, and they were too poor to marry, so she expected to go to Rotterdam as a nursemaid. "It seems," said Lady MacNairne, "that Volendam girls are in demand all over Holland, as nurses; they're so good to children and animals. But this one won't have to go, for dear Ronny must supply her dot." "Have you asked him?" I inquired.
"If you'll just warn Miss Rivers, and tell my aunt that she'd better be asleep when Sir Alec MacNairne peeps in, I'll tackle your cousin." "Come, then," said Nell. And I followed her into that tasteful little cabin which, in the dim past, I decorated for my own use.
"And this," said Mr. van Buren, "was once one of the proudest cities of the Zuider Zee!" "My goodness!" exclaimed Lady MacNairne, "is this little old thing another of the Dead Cities? Well, I'm sure it couldn't have been half as nice when it was alive." And down something went in her note-book. We drove by a park, a noble church, and the loveliest cemetery I ever saw, not at all sad.
"That doesn't matter, as they've never met; so long as he doesn't know her name." "Very well, he shan't learn it from me." "And he mustn't from Miss Rivers. Will you warn your stepsister, not under any provocation whatever, to speak the name of Lady MacNairne?" "I will. But why couldn't you have said Phil was engaged to Jonkheer Brederode?" "Robert van Buren wouldn't have stood it." "I see.
To know that at any moment Sir Alec MacNairne might pounce upon us, denounce the Chaperon as a fraud, disgust the girls with Starr, and put a sudden end to the adventure as far as the two men in it were concerned, was not conducive to appetite.
When we had talked about Sir Alexander MacNairne the other day at Amsterdam, the Jonkheer said nothing about their acquaintance. I wondered if there had been a quarrel, and if so, what it could have been about, though it was certainly no affair of mine.
"I'm not sure I didn't see enough this afternoon," said Mr. Starr. "Anyhow, I mean to have another cigarette or two here; and I do think the ladies might stop with me, for I have a hundred things to say." Lady MacNairne and Nell were on their feet, however, and would not be persuaded; so we bade each other good-night, and three minutes later Nell was opening her parcels in our room.
As we walked through the wide Hoog Straat, he glanced absent-mindedly at the rows of beautiful seventeenth century houses, as if he feared to see Sir Alec MacNairne spring from behind some ornamented, ancient door, to accuse him as a perjured villain.
"It's so close here, and I've had no exercise to-day. I am fond of walking in the rain." "I will chaperon you," said the L.C.P. "Oh, we need not trouble you, Lady MacNairne," protested Menela. "It might give you rheumatism; and girls in Holland are allowed to be very independent." My heart sank. How could even the ever resourceful L.C.P. get round that sharp corner? She was equal to it.
Ten o'clock came, and Lady MacNairne proposed that, as we could do nothing, we women should go to bed. Then Nell spoke. "No," she said. "You and Phil can do as you like, and Cousin Robert and Mr. Starr; but I shall sit up." Of course I told her I would sit up, too; and as Mr. van Buren said the commercial travelers had left the dining-room, he and Mr.
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