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Ives could accept an invitation to dinner if one were proffered him. Dora, very weakly, rose to the bait. When the ladies retired he came into the smoking room, drank a whisky and soda, said that Miss Queenborough was really a very charming companion, and apologized for leaving us early, on the ground that his sermon was still unwritten.
What happened on that stroll I do not know; but meeting Miss Trix on the stairs later in the afternoon, I ventured to remark: "I hope you broke it to him gently, Miss Queenborough?" "I don't know what you mean," replied Trix haughtily. "You were out nearly two hours," said I. "Were we?" asked Trix, with a start. "Good gracious! Where was mamma, Mr. Wynne?" "On the lawn watch in hand."
"Oh, you are, are you?" said I smiling. As I spoke, Jack Ives ran up to us. "I say, Miss Queenborough," he cried, "I've just got your message saying you'd let me take you on the lake." "Is it a great bore?" asked Trix, with a glance a glance that meant mischief. "I should like it awfully, of course," said Jack; "but the fact is I've promised to take Mrs.
Lawn tennis was the order of the day, and we were all in flannels. "Oh, here's Mark!" cried Dora, seeing me. "Now, Mark, you and Mr. Ives had better play against Trix and Lord Newhaven. That'll make a very good set." "No, no, Mrs. Polton," said Jack Ives. "They wouldn't have a chance. Look here, I'll play with Miss Queenborough against Lord Newhaven and Wynne."
The Mayor of Queenborough feels as though he were a very important personage till Royalty drives through his borough without noticing his scarf and his cocked hat; and then, for the first time, he observes how small the Queenborough town-hall is. But if one is to gossip about books, it is, perhaps, as well that one should have some limits.
Although, during the Protectorate, some pains had been taken to render Sheerness, then a very inconsiderable village, a place of strength and safety, and the ancient castle of Queenborough had been pulled down by the Parliamentarians, as deficient in strength and utility, no one visiting only the southern and western parts of the island could for a moment imagine that the interior contained spots of such positive and cultivated beauty.
Here another steamer is ready for us, and after a passage of a few hours we glide into the broad trumpet-shaped mouth of the Thames and land at Queenborough. There again we take a train which carries us through the thickly-peopled, well-cultivated country of Kent into the heart of London, the greatest city of the world.
Apart from that, the Government owe you every possible sort of reparation for the shameful way you've been treated. If there's any 'overlooking' to be done, it will be on your side, not on theirs." We were entering the dreary main street of Queenborough as he spoke, and before I could answer he drew up outside the post-office. "We've just time to send off a telegram," he said.
But if it had been, Miss Trix Queenborough might have been expected to act very much in the way in which she proceeded to act: that is to say, to be extravagantly attentive to Lord Newhaven when Jack Ives was present, and markedly neglectful of him in the curate's absence. It also fitted in very well with the theory which I had ventured to hint, that her bearing towards Mrs.
The set went on; and, owing entirely to Newhaven's absurd chivalry in sending all the balls to Jack Ives instead of following the well-known maxim to "pound away at the lady," they beat us. Jack wiped his brow, strolled up to the tea-table with Trix, and remarked in exultant tones: "We make a perfect couple, Miss Queenborough; we ought never to be separated."
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