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He laughed, and changed the conversation. 'I heard you young ladies talking a great deal of the Pensildon fête last night, he said. 'Did you really? asked Milly; 'you did not appear to be much interested in our conversation. 'Did I seem distrait? It is a way I have sometimes, Miss Darrell; but I can assure you I can hear two or three conversations at once.
We did not go to the Pensildon fête. Milly had a cold and kept her room, much to the regret of the Miss Collingwoods, who called every day to inquire about her. She made this cold which was really a very slight affair an excuse for a week's solitude, and at the end of that time reappeared among us with no trace of her secret sorrow.
When we went back to the drawing-room after dinner, the Miss Collingwoods had a great deal to say to Milly about a grand croquet- match which was to take place in a week or two at Pensildon, Sir john and Lady Pensildon's place, fourteen miles from Thornleigh.
Egerton had almost made up his mind to spend the autumn at Cumber, he told us; and he would go to the Pensildon fête, and take Milly's side in the croquet-match. He seemed in almost boyish spirits during that homeward walk. When we went up-stairs to our rooms that night, Milly followed me into mine.
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