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Updated: June 10, 2025
Yet, in the last year or so, he had been continually coming across them together at the club, at luncheon in the women's dining room, at his own house, Natalie always perfectly and expensively dressed, Audrey in the casual garments which somehow her wearing made effective. He smiled a little. Certain of Audrey's impertinences came to his mind. She was an amusing young woman.
I do not know whether I left my door unlocked, or whether a pass-key was used, but I woke up suddenly to discover a woman in the room. I only had a glimpse of her, for she slipped out instantly, and disappeared down the hall; but it was moonlight and I would have sworn the intruder was Miss Natalie. I asked her the next day." "And she denied being there?"
At last he said, uncomfortably: "Gee, I thought I was the dippy member of the family!" "It's our chance to help him," she urged. "Will you ?" "No! I'm sorry, Sis, but my little bit wouldn't mean anything to him; it means everything to me. Maybe that's selfish I don't care. I'm as mad over Natalie as you seem to be over him. A week's delay can't make any difference now he played and lost.
Secondly, Miss Lavinia Graybrooke, Sir Joseph's maiden sister. Personally, Sir Joseph in petticoats. If you knew one you knew the other. Thirdly, Miss Natalie Graybrooke Sir Joseph's only child. She had inherited the personal appearance and the temperament of her mother dead many years since.
With childish astonishment and ecstasy, Natalie wandered through these rooms, which she hardly recognized in their splendid ornamentation, and stood before these treasures of trifles which she hardly dared to touch. "This lord must be either a magician or a nabob," thoughtfully remarked Marianne; "it must have required millions to effect all this."
It was better to let those who saw Natalie on the trail speculate as they chose, rather than give them an opportunity to put their own coarse construction upon the truth. He was well assured Nick Grylls would say nothing. For the same reason, he decided to avoid the Settlement altogether.
"Of course, Lieutenant-Governor! I understand perfectly. Business before pleasure, always. Go right in, won't you, and send Natalie here to me. I'll stay here. Aren't we going to have tea, Dorothy? Oh, do try to sit up straight, my dear!"
She was not conscious of observation to-day, however, and skirted the cliffs rapidly, drawing her gray mantle about her as the wind howled by, but did not lift the hood; the massive coils of silver-blond hair kept her head warm. As the Princess Hélène, despite her own faultless blondinity, had pronounced, Natalie Ivanhoff was a beautiful woman.
Next day I found Natalie in a pleasant morning-room to which I was directed. She wore her most extreme and, in consequence, most exasperating rational costume. When I entered the room she pushed a chair towards me, in a way that suggested Miss Metford's worst manner, and lit a cigarette, for the express purpose, I felt, of annoying me. "I have come," I said somewhat shamefacedly, "to explain."
"You would not have many to confess," said Elizabeth, "for your sins are few. You are the pride of my court, and, as I am told, a true pattern of all knightly virtues. Remain so, and who knows, my fair young count, what the future may bring you? Love my Natalie now only as an angel of innocence; let her grow up as such, and then " "And then?" asked the count, as the empress stopped.
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