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Perhaps Lord Raygan needed a little more encouragement, for, after all, she was rich and he was poor, and men did hesitate about proposing to heiresses in novels. Nothing did happen; but there was still time, for the guests were staying on for a cotillon, and there was a meeting at which Lady Raygan had faithfully promised to speak.
I thought I don't see why I shouldn't say it! when I asked for work in your father's store that none of the family would ever come near the place. I was told they never did. But it wasn't true. You all come!" "You mean my father and I?" "And Miss Rolls, too " "She came?" "Yes, with Lord Raygan, and and I think you and Lady Eileen were here, too." "We were," Peter said.
Her brother Peter and Lady Eileen were somewhere in the shop. This was the day chosen for the sightseeing expedition insisted upon by Raygan. Ena had hated the idea of it, hated having to be associated in Raygan's eyes with the Hands. She had felt a presentiment that something horrid would happen, but she hadn't supposed it would be quite so horrid and upsetting as this.
If only Ena had known enough about earls and their families to be sure whether Lord Raygan and Eileen would, in their secret hearts, think the ways of the Rollses endlessly quaint or melting, she might have been spared sleepless nights. Because the difference between those two adjectives would mean the difference between ecstasy and despair for her.
"And so you were in the store even then? Nobody told me." "I hoped they wouldn't." It was his turn to be silent, understanding Eileen's dream. Raygan must have talked to her about the girl. But there would have been nothing to say, if Ena had not said it first. Ena had "explained things" to Raygan, perhaps and then An old impression came back to Peter.
"It's about that girl I want to speak," she said, when she had enticed Lord Raygan into this secluded retreat. "Who, the Lady in the Moon?" He was staring at delft plates on panelled walls. "Yes. I wished for a minute she'd been the Lady in Jericho. Perhaps you noticed that I didn't seem overwhelmed with joy at sight of her?"
An aigret jabbed viciously at the tall shop-girl's eye, and Miss Rolls said hastily: "What Lady in the Moon? I don't know whom you're talking about, Lord Raygan. But oh, here's our floor! This is where I want to get out." "Never mind, let's stop in and come up again," commanded Raygan in the masterful way which Ena loved for its British male brutality when it didn't interfere with her wishes.
"I can't tell you, Lord Raygan. Please don't ask me. You'll embarrass me very much if you do. But will you just trust me that it would be a very bad thing if they were to meet, and not insist on our going to look her up at the waist counter or wherever she is?" "Certainly I won't insist," said Rags. "I don't care, you know, whether we look her up or not.
"I'll be ever so nice to Miss Child to-night and afterward, too, in New York, if you can bring anything off with Lord Raygan about the visit. Are you playing poker with him this afternoon?" "Yes. Some chaps wanted " "I know. He told me. But he didn't mention you. Afterward, will you work right up to the 'good thing' you can put him on to? He'll be in just the mood if he loses.
Never had it been more difficult than to-day, during this visit she detested to the great department store of Peter Rolls. If she had declined to come, that would have been snobbish. If, having come, she refused the "glad hand" to one of her father's shop girls whom Raygan chose to greet as an equal that, too, would be snobbish. And to be snobbish was, in Raygan's language, to be "beastly vulgar."
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