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But where is Lady MacNairne?" "Heavens, don't yell at the top of your voice," groaned Starr, in a dreadful whisper. "There may be some one at the next table who can speak English. I've had an awful lesson, as nobody knows better than you, to behave in a restaurant as if I were at church.
But you and Phyllis are so kind to me always, that I'm sure you'll consent without asking for more explanations, won't you, when I say that it's for my sake, and to save a lot of bother." When Lady MacNairne wants anybody to do anything for her, she makes herself perfectly irresistible. I don't know at all how, but I only wish I had the art of doing it.
Jonkheer Brederode was pleased, I think, to feel that some one took an interest in him; but he made light of the danger, and saw us off so merrily that I forgot to worry. Mr. van Buren didn't want to drive; Mr. Starr doesn't know how; and as Nell said she would like to sit in front with the chauffeur, Lady MacNairne and I had the two men in the tonneau with us.
Starr had proposed to toss a coin, Lady MacNairne pointed wildly out to sea, crying "Look there look there!" A dot of a thing was tearing over the water a dot of a thing, like our own darling, blessed motor-boat, and the nearer it came the more like it was. At last there was no room for doubt.
At once Nell fired up. "Not at all," said she. "No one who doesn't want to, need go; but those who do, will. All favorably inclined hold up their hands." Up went Mr. Starr's, and Lady MacNairne slowly followed his example.
She is too large; and she does not easily move from Scheveningen. But if she writes you a note, to ask you and Miss Rivers, you will go, is it not?" "With pleasure," I said, "if it isn't too far. You see, Lady MacNairne may arrive soon, and when she does " "But now I will see my mother, and I will bring back the letter.
The men might go, if they liked, he said, and there really wasn't much danger; but in such rough weather he couldn't allow women to run the risk in "Lorelei." "But it wouldn't be in 'Lorelei, Lady MacNairne put in. 'Lorelei' has ceased to exist." Nell grew pink and I think I grew pale.
You make conditions with me?" "Certainly, I have the right." "You are extraordinary." "I am a Dutchman." "Oh, here comes Lady MacNairne in her motor-coat and hood. She bought them yesterday because they're Tibe-color. What excuse can I make? Oh, what are your conditions?" "First, that you tell me you want me to stay." "I do on their account." "That's not the way." "Well, then, I ask you to stay.
"It's under the latest news of your Queen's doings," said he, and began to read aloud: "'Jonkheer Brederode, who is equally popular in English and Dutch society and sporting circles, has taken for the season a large motor-boat, in which he is touring the waterways of Holland, with a party of invited friends, among whom is Lady MacNairne.
Long before this I'd been sure of his name, but I hadn't expected to hear Lady MacNairne's. "Forty, and looks twenty-five." Yes, that was a fair description of Lady MacNairne, as far as it went; but much more might be said by her admirers, of whom I openly declared myself one, before a good-sized audience at a country house in Scotland, not quite a year ago.
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