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Updated: June 22, 2025
It is, when you think of it, so remarkably perverse. Lady Mickleham is back from her honeymoon. I went. "I didn't know you were back," I observed. "Oh, we've been back a fortnight, but we went down to The Towers. They were all there, Mr. Carter." "All who?" "All Archie's people. The dowager said we must get really to know one another as soon as possible. I'm not sure I like really knowing people.
A rather uncomfortable thing happened the other day which threatened a schism in my acquaintance and put me in a decidedly awkward position. It was no other than this: Mrs. Hilary Musgrave had definitely informed me that she did not approve of Lady Mickleham. The attitude is, no doubt, a conceivable one, but I was surprised that a woman of Mrs. Hilary's large sympathies should adopt it.
"It is the same thing," said Lady Mickleham. "I should have thought there was a distinction," said I. "None at all." I fell back on a second line of defense. "I didn't let her catch me, Lady Mickleham," I pleaded. Lady Mickleham grew quite red. This made me feel more at my ease. "No, sir. If you had " "Goodness knows!" I murmured, shaking my head.
But I could not permit Lady Mickleham to laugh at me in the unconscionable manner in which she proceeded to laugh. I spread out my hands and observed blandly: "Why not be guided as to the others, I mean by your husband's example?" "Archie's example? What's that?" "I don't know; but you do, I suppose." "What do you mean, Mr. Carter?" she asked, sitting upright.
"She's not heard of that. I only told Aunt Cynthia." I said something about "Aunt Cynthia." "Does does she know it all?" asked Miss Dolly. "More than all much more." "Didn't you smooth it over?" said Miss Dolly reproachfully. "On reflection," said I, "I don't know that I did much." Suddenly Mickleham burst out laughing. "What a game!" he exclaimed. "That's all very well for you," said Dolly.
Lady Mickleham wore blue. The dog swallowed the pate with greediness. "It's so bad for him," sighed she; "but the dear likes it so much." "How human the creatures are," said I. "Do you know," pursued Lady Mickleham, "that the Dowager says I'm extravagant. She thinks dogs ought not to be fed on pate de foie gras."
"Of course," pursued Lady Mickleham, opening her fan, "it's in some ways more comfortable that he shouldn't know." "For him?" "Yes and for me. But then it doesn't seem quite fair." "To him?" "Yes and to me. Because if he came to know from anybody else, he might exaggerate the things, you know." "Impossible!" "Mr. Carter!" "I er mean he knows you too well to do such a thing." "Oh, I see. Thank you.
Fairfax going to the races. Mr. Fairfax at first seemed much inclined to remain at home, and perform garrison duty. "Geraldine will come downstairs presently, I daresay," he said to Lady Laura, "and we can have a quiet stroll in the gardens, while you are all away. I don't care a straw about the Mickleham races. Please leave me at home, Lady Laura." "But Geraldine begs that you will go.
The poor little lady wandered about for another hour, looking so lost that one was inclined to send for a policeman; and then she sat down on a seat by the wall, and, in desperation, asked her next-door neighbor if he knew Lady Mickleham by sight, and had he seen her lately?
"By the merest chance," I observed meditatively, "I attended a reception last night." "I went to three," said Lady Mickleham, selecting a sardine sandwich with care. "I might not have gone," I mused, "I might easily not have gone." "I can't see what difference it would have made if you hadn't," said she. "I thought three times about going. It's a curious world." "What happened?
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