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"You don't call this bothering her with questions, do you? She can tell me about her people, can't she?" "Her people," he answered firmly, "are going to be my people." Lady Medlincourt gasped. "You have known her, then," she said, "about three weeks?" "I have known her long enough to realize that she is the girl whom I have been waiting for all my life." Lady Medlincourt shrugged her shoulders.
"You have very little accent, but I fancy that I can just detect it, and we don't see eyes like yours in England." "Yes, I am American, Lady Medlincourt," Virginia answered. "Who are your people, then?" Lady Medlincourt asked. "Where did you meet? Who introduced you? Don't look at one another like a pair of stupids.
Lady Medlincourt shook her head. "No, I cannot, Guy!" she said, "and if you weren't a silly fool you would not ask me. The future Duchess of Mowbray has to explain her position, whether she is a gentlewoman or a chorus girl. There's plenty of rope for her nowadays. She may be pretty well anything she pleases, but she must be some one.
"Now we shall not be disturbed for at least a quarter of an hour," she said, "and I want to hear all about it. You are very pretty, I am glad to see, dear," she said, looking at Virginia contemplatively. "I hate plain girls. What did you say that your name was?" "Virginia Longworth!" Virginia answered, blushing. "Quite a charming name!" Lady Medlincourt said, shutting her eyeglasses with a snap.
"Guy," she said, turning towards him, "we ought never to have come here. Lady Medlincourt has a perfect right to ask these questions. Until we can answer them we ought to go away." Guy took her hand in his. "Aunt," he said, "can't you trust a little in my judgment? Look at her. She is the girl whom I love, and whom I am going to trust with my name. Can't you let it go at that for the present?"
Remember that, however pointed my questions may sound, they are things which I must know if I am to be of any use to you." Virginia went a little pale. "Lady Medlincourt," she said, "I am sorry, but I cannot answer any questions just now." Lady Medlincourt drew back a little in her place. She looked at the girl in frank amazement. "What!" she exclaimed. Guy leaned forward in his chair.
"How are you, my dear?" she said quite calmly. "Will you have some tea? It's beastly, I know, been standing for hours, but Guy can ring for some fresh. So you are really going to marry my nephew?" Virginia raised her eyes, and looked for a moment into the face of the woman who sat by her side. "Yes, Lady Medlincourt," she answered; "I do hope you will not be angry." "Angry!
Fortunately Lady Medlincourt won the rubber, and having collected her winnings, she followed him into the morning-room. "Well, Guy, what is it?" she said resentfully. "I suppose you have found that child?" "I have not only found her," he answered, "but I have found out all about her. Do you know whose niece she is, and whom she is staying with?" "How should I, my dear boy?" she answered.
"Do you happen to remember the address she gave you?" he asked the man. "I am sorry, your Grace. I did not hear it." Lady Medlincourt opened the door of the morning-room. "I think, Guy," she said, "you had better come in and talk to me." It was between half-past four and five o'clock in the morning, and London for the most part slept.
My dear child, I am never angry," Lady Medlincourt declared. "I have arrived at that time in life when one cannot afford the luxury of giving way to emotion. You won't mind my asking you a few questions, though, both of you. To begin with, I do not know your name. Who are you?" Guy leaned a little forward. "She will be Duchess of Mowbray in a very short time, aunt," he said.
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