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I sat down on the sofa again. Antony had risen and leaned against the mantel-piece. He was idly pulling the ears of Bedevere, who, sitting there, reached up into his hand. I never could have imagined dogs so big as are these three. "Of course you went to Myrlton. I had forgotten. The Duke made love to you, I suppose?" "Why should you suppose?" "Because I saw signs of it at Harley.
"You can send them with the others to Myrlton Castle." And with a few casual words of admiration about a set of lingerie that was lying on the table, I sauntered out into the street. I do not know exactly what I felt a sense of insult, principally. I did not hate Lady Grenellen, and I did not feel jealous about Augustus. But it all seemed so terribly low.
"It it's a month ago we were at Myrlton." "The silly girl preferred Luffy, but for the last weeks they both were hanging on. Miss Trumpet and her aunt were staying at Claridge's, and they tell me it was too ridiculous! Luffy lunched with them every day, and Berty dined in the evening." "You did not tell her about the Coronation, then?" "Yes, I did!
Two of the men who had been at Harley passed, and, seeing me, came up and spoke. They were going to Myrlton, too, I found. "Why don't you get in here?" I said, graciously, to the funny one they had called "Billy," and whose other name I had never grasped. "It is so dull to travel alone with one's husband." He got in and sat opposite me. We talked merrily.
It was a raw, foggy morning when we all left Myrlton. The Duke accompanied us to London, and we were a merry party in the train, in spite of eight of us playing bridge. Augustus told me he had business in town, and would stay the night and over Sunday, arriving at Dane Mount by the four-o'clock train on Monday.
Would he vent his anger on her, presently, or should I be the recipient of it? Time would show. Myrlton is a glorious place, hundreds and hundreds of years old, and full of traditions and ghosts, with a real draw-bridge and huge baronial hall, with the raised part, where they eat above the salt in by-gone days.
"How spiteful of you, when Lady Grenellen was trying to arrange for your future happiness!" "Nothing of the kind. You don't know Cordelia. She is only afraid I shall shut up Myrlton, or let it, and she amuses herself a good deal there. She thought if I had a rich wife her opportunities would oftener occur. I can only keep it open in the autumn now." "Oh, you are a wonderful company!" I laughed.
"You are a sophist, I fear," I said, smiling. "See, here is Miss Martina B. Cadwallader advancing upon us. Stern virtue is on every line of her face, anyway!" "Pardon me, Dook," she said, "but the guide to Myrlton I purchased at the station gave me to understand I should find a second portrait of Queen Elizabeth in this gallery. I cannot see it.
Apparently, for the moment, she had finished with Augustus, for she snubbed him sharply once or twice, and finally retired with a beautiful young man into the compartment beyond, kissing her hand to the rest as she went through the door. "I am going to talk business with Luffy till we get to Myrlton," she said. A savage look stamped itself upon Augustus's face.
I tried to be more gentle and sympathetic to him and to take more interest in the house. And so, at last, the 30th arrived, and our visit to Myrlton Castle. We had to pass through London on our way there, and Augustus left me for an hour or two, while he went to his tailor's, he said. I had no money to shop with.
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