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Something must be done. We can't stand by and see dear Edith betrayed. She's so happy and so trusting. And, besides all that, we'd be dragged into the scandal. "And the Odell-Carneys too. Heavens!" "It must be stopped! I shall go at once to Mrs. Odell-Carney and tell her what we have discovered. It will prepare her.
Freddie stood between them, a hand on the shoulder of each. Very seriously he was saying: "I say, gentlemen, we can't abandon a woman at a time like this. We must stand together. All true sports and black sheep should stand together, don't you know." It is possible that Odell-Carney appreciated the subtlety of this compliment. Not so Mr. Rodney. "Sports? Black sheep?
We must take the first train for for anywhere. Will you tell Mrs. Odell-Carney that if she'll get ready at once, papa will see to the tickets." "Tickets? But, my dear young lady, we're not going anywhere. We're going to stay here and see your cousin out of her troubles. My wife is with her now." He started away as Mr. Rodney came puffing up the stairs. Odell-Carney changed his mind and waited.
Medcroft, receives two letters a day from London, great, fat letters which take fifteen minutes to read in spite of the fact that they are written in a perfectly huge hand by a man a man, d'ye hear? They're not from her husband. He's here. He cannot have written them in London, don't you see? He " "I see," inserted Mrs. Rodney, who was afraid that Mrs. Odell-Carney might think she didn't see.
Which is saying a great deal in these unfeeling days of pounds and shillings. Of course Mrs. Odell-Carney was dressed as all rangy, long-limbed Englishwomen are prone to dress, after a model peculiarly not her own. She looked ridiculously ungraceful alongside the smart, chic American women, and yet not one of them but would have given her boots to be able to array herself as one of these.
I can't endure Cousin Mary's snippishness much longer, and as for Katherine! My dear, I hate that girl!" "She's been very nice lately, Edith ever since Freddie dropped me so completely. By the way, Burton was telling me to-day that Odell-Carney had been asking her some very curious and staggering questions about Tootles and your most private affairs." "I know, my dear," groaned Edith.
There was no denying the fact that Mrs. Odell-Carney was a "regular tip-topper," as Mr. Rodney was only too eager to say. She had the air of a born leader; that is to say, she could be gracious when occasion demanded, without being patronising. In due course of time the Medcrofts and Miss Fowler were presented to the distinguished couple.
"That's just it, Miss Fowler," explained Odell-Carney glibly. "You shee see, it was this way: we got him out on bail on condition he'd 'pear to-morrow morning 'fore the magistrate. Affer we'd got him out, he insisted on coming 'round here so's he could run away with you. That wassen a gennelmanly thing to do, affer we'd put up our money. We coul'n' afford have him runnin' away with you.
"There is no telegram down there, madam." At this juncture Mr. Odell-Carney appeared on the scene, uninvited but welcome. "Wot's all this?" he demanded sternly. Everybody proceeded at once to tell him. Somehow he got the drift of the story. "Get out all of you!" he said. "I stand sponsor for Mrs. Medcroft. She is Mrs. Medcroft, hang you, sir.
She is the best friend I have, and I know she will suggest a way to put a stop to this thing before it is too late. We must " "Why don't you speak to father about it first?" "Your father! My dear, what would be the use? He wouldn't believe it. He never does. I wonder if dear Mrs. Odell-Carney is in her room." The estimable lady fluttered loosely toward the door. Her daughter called to her.
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