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I said, and I handed it to Robert, while I addressed the envelope. "Yes," he said, and waited while I sealed it up and gave it to the porter. Then, with a surreptitious squeeze of the hand, he left me to go to Lady Merrenden. I have come up to my little sitting-room a changed being. The whole world revolves for me upon another axis, and all within the space of three short hours.
And he is so deliciously jealous and masterful and oh, I love him so there it is! I am learning a lot of things, and I am sure there are lots to learn still. At half-past one Lady Merrenden came and fetched us in the barouche, and off we went to Vavasour House, with what different feelings to last evening! The pompous servants received us in state, and we all three walked on to the duke's room.
I wanted to distract my thoughts from dwelling upon to-morrow and what I was going to say to Christopher. To-morrow that seems the end of the world! She has beautiful horses, Lady Merrenden, and the whole turn-out, except she herself, is as smart as can be. She really looks a little frumpish out-of-doors, and perhaps that is why papa went on to Mrs. Carruthers.
I felt as if I could not stand too tall and straight. "The long and short of it is, he has absolutely refused to have anything to do with the matter, says I need expect nothing further from him, and we have parted for good and all." "Oh, Robert!" It was almost a cry from Lady Merrenden. Robert put his arms round me, and his face changed to radiance. "Well, I don't care; what does it matter?
And how brave and splendid he had been in the war; and how the people all adored him at Torquilstone; and of his popularity and influence with them. "You must make him go into Parliament," she said. Then Robert came into the room. Oh, his darling face spoke, there was no need for words. The duke, one could see, had been obdurate. "Well," said Lady Merrenden.
When she had gone Lady Ver said old people without dyed hair or bridge proclivities were tiresome, and she smoked three cigarettes, one after the other as fast as she could. I said I thought Lady Merrenden was charming.
"When you leave us alone I am going to pull it all down"; and he whispered, "Darling, I love you," so close that his lips touched my ear, while he pretended he was not doing anything. I say, again, Robert has ways that would charm a stone image. "How was Torquilstone last night?" Lady Merrenden asked, "and did you tell him anything?" "Not a word," said Robert.
She can't know as much about men as even I do; of course, it only makes him all the more eager. It is quite an object-lesson for me. I shall be impossibly difficult myself if I meet Mr. Carruthers again, as he has no mother to play these tricks for him. Lord Robert's answer came on Saturday afternoon. It was all done through Lady Merrenden.
"And he said?" asked Lady Merrenden, breathless. I only held tighter Robert's hand. "He swore like a trooper, he thumped his glass down on the table and smashed it a disgusting exhibition of temper I was ashamed of him.
He would evidently have been very tall but for his deformity a hump stands out on his back almost like Mr. Punch. He can't be much over forty, but he looks far older; his hair is quite gray. Not a line or an expression in him reminded me of Lord Robert, I am glad to say. Lady Merrenden introduced us, and Lord Merrenden came in then, too, and we all went down to luncheon.
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