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"They say I'm common and ignorant, and so I am," said Toni passionately, with a sudden desire to blurt out the conversation she had overheard on that miserable day in August. "Mrs. Madgwick says so, and Lady Martin. I heard them and lots of other people say so too. I thought it wasn't true at first and then I saw it was. I asked Mr.
Madgwick felt exhilarated by this authentic peep into the lives of the great ones of the earth. "Of course it must be galling to be thrown over for another man though when it is a Lord " "Well, a Lord's no worse than another man," said Lady Martin rather ambiguously. "But they say there was a terrible scene Mr.
Rose reproaching the girl and threatening to kill Lord Saxonby, and making all sorts of wild threats. My daughter's friend had a maid who had been with Lady Saxonby, and she told her all this." "Ah, then of course it's true." Mrs. Madgwick, having a mind which delighted in gossip, did not quarrel with the source of information. "But I don't yet see why Mr. Rose married this girl.
But I don't intend to give up Eva Herrick to please a lot of spiteful old women like Lady Martin and Mrs. Madgwick." "Certainly one or two people have commented on your friendship," said Owen thoughtfully, "and I'm bound to say I don't like it myself. To begin with Mrs.
She supposed, forlornly, that she ought to make her presence known; but she felt it almost impossible to stir; and the first words she heard kept her chained to her seat. "A sad pity," Mrs. Madgwick was remarking in her unctuous voice. "I always felt there was something just a little well, what shall I call it? second-rate about the girl. Mr.
But she did not drop the subject. 'You said something to Professor Madgwick the other day about a line of Goethe you used to like so when you were a boy. What did it mean? She flushed, as though she were venturing on something which would make her ridiculous. 'A line of Goethe? repeated David, pondering. 'Oh! I know. Yes, it was a line from Goethe's novel of "Werther."
I was well out of it, since she was a woman of that kind." "Oh, I don't mind now," said Toni, with a faint smile. "I did at first. When Lady Martin and Mrs. Madgwick said it, last summer, I thought my heart would break; but I suppose I got used to the idea, and when I saw Lady Saxonby to-day I knew it was just one of the things that no one can help." Owen, not understanding her, only stared.
Rose was some little shop-assistant " "Ah, no! I remember now!" Lady Martin spoke mysteriously, and Mrs. Madgwick looked up sharply. "Mrs. Rose was not in a shop. It was not there that Mr. Rose met her. As a matter of fact she was his typist." "His typist! Ah!" Toni, listening breathlessly, could not fathom the significance of the lady's tone.
Having finished the hurried and uncomfortable meal, consisting chiefly of tinned tongue and a rather out-of-date cream cheese, Toni was allowed to run home to change her dress; and at half-past two precisely she was back, robed in the daintiest, filmiest white lawn gown, to take her place with the other stallholders, in readiness for the opening ceremony, performed, much to the delight of the entire Madgwick family, by a real duchess.
In the two persons who were drawing near, evidently with the intention of seating themselves upon the bench outside the hut, she recognized Lady Martin and Mrs. Madgwick; and instantly Toni felt a quick foreboding of evil.
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