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The whole thing had a savour of adventure in it, and it amused her to think how shocked Mrs. Rushmore would have been if she had guessed that the chauffeur was Logotheti himself.
Margaret did not seem very sorry for herself, however, for she went off at this point, singing the 'jewel song' in Faust at the top of her voice, and wishing with all her heart that she were already behind the footlights with the orchestra at her feet. Two days later, Mrs. Rushmore received a cable message from New York which surprised her almost as much as the paragraph about Margaret had.
Now please tell me whether you think Mrs. Rushmore, acting for you, would have withdrawn the suit after the property had changed hands, merely because I've dined in her house. 'No, Margaret was forced to admit. 'No, she would have gone on. 'Precisely. Now I don't want property of that kind, about which there is constant litigation.
A bishop, my dear oh no, really! it would make a pirate blush! Can you tell me what good this kind of thing can do? 'Advertisement, Margaret answered coolly. 'It's intended to excite interest in me before I appear, you know. Don't they do it in America? 'Never! cried Mrs. Rushmore with solemn emphasis. 'Apart from its being all a perfectly gratuitous falsehood. 'Gratuitous?
At this view of the case Margaret's forehead flushed a little. 'You talk as if I were going to be a music-hall singer, she said. 'That's where you'll end! retorted Mrs. Rushmore, without the slightest regard for facts. 'That's where they all end! There, or in the divorce courts or both! It's the same thing! she concluded triumphantly.
Rushmore, said the latter, alluding to her departed husband, 'would not have understood such conduct. Margaret thought this was very probable, judging from the likenesses of the late Ransom Rushmore which she had seen. There was one in particular, an engraving of him when he had been president of some big company, which had always filled her with a vague uneasiness.
Rushmore would not like it, if I came for you myself, he continued, looking at her through his goggles. 'I'm sure she wouldn't, Margaret assented readily. 'In point of fact, Logotheti continued, with a grin, 'she expressed her opinion of me with extraordinary directness. Suspicious Greek! Worse than a foreigner! As bad as a Turk! The unprincipled owner of a harem!
'I had only met him once before to-day, said Margaret. 'It's all the same, retorted Mrs. Rushmore with an approach to asperity. 'He proposed to you. Don't deny it. I say, don't deny it. 'I haven't denied it, answered Margaret. 'I only hoped that you had not noticed anything. He must be perfectly mad. Why in the world should he want to marry me? 'All Greeks, said Mrs.
He produced a miniature card-case of pale blue morocco, which exactly matched his tie, and drew from it a blank cheque carefully folded to about the size of two postage stamps. 'Dear me! exclaimed Mrs. Rushmore. 'Dear me! This is very sudden! 'You must have made up your mind a long time ago as to what Miss Donne's share should be worth, suggested Logotheti, smoothing the cheque on his knee.
Rushmore for detecting his little 'mistake, and she recognised in him a real 'man of business' because he had made it. 'Let us call it a half million dollars, then, he said, with a smile. 'At four-eighty-four, that is' again he looked at the ceiling for ten seconds 'that is one hundred and three thousand three hundred and five pounds fifteen shillings fivepence halfpenny, nearly. Is that it?
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