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"How nice it is!" says she, staring at the sparks roaring up the chimney; "such a companion!" She leans back and rests her head against Rylton's knees. "Now, go on," she says comfortably. "Go on?" "Yes. We were saying something about friends. That we should be friends all our lives. So we shall be. Eh?" "I don't know."
You mustn't be angry with me," says Minnie, still with the air of the ingénue full about her; "but I felt ever since the night before last that I should speak to you." "The night before last!" Rylton's astonishment is so immense that he can do nothing but repeat her words. And now it must be told that Minnie, who had seen that vindictive look on Mrs.
Instinctively both he and Lady Rylton look towards the open window. There below, still attended by Mr. Gower, and coming back from her charitable visit to the swans, is Tita, her little head upheld, her bright eyes smiling, her lips parted. There is a sense of picturesque youth about the child that catches Rylton's attention, and holds it for the moment.
But" sorrowfully "nobody's asked me." She says it so innocently, so sweetly, that Rylton's heart grows cold within him. To ask her! To tempt this child "But," says he, looking away from her religiously, "would you marry a man who was not in love with you?" "Not in love with me?" "No. Not actually in love, but who admired liked you?"
"Acts words whose acts?" asks he slowly. "Tita's." "Lady Rylton's? What do you mean?" He shakes himself suddenly free of the touch that has grown hateful to him. "I mean," says she boldly, still unconscious of his real meaning of the abyss that lies before her, "that you can at any moment get rid of her. You can at any moment get a divorce!" "By lying?" says he, with agitation.
"Why should I object to it? I talk of marriage only in the abstract." "I am glad of that!" Lady Rylton's eyes are still fixed on hers. "This will be a veritable marriage, I assure you; I have set my mind on it. It is terrible to contemplate, but one must give way sometimes; yet the thought of throwing that girl into the arms of darling Maurice "
But Lady Rylton's hand was at the helm, and she guided her barque to a safe anchor with all speed. She had kept Tita with her under her eye, as it were until the final accomplishment should have taken place. The wedding, she declared, should be from her house, from The Place, seeing that the poor darling child was motherless!
She had meant Margaret Margaret whom she loves; but he who had he meant? Really it doesn't matter so much after all, this story of Lady Rylton's. Maurice can go his way and she hers that was arranged! But, for all that, it does seem rather mean that he should have married her, telling her nothing of this.
Rylton had scarcely been in it, though a good player. That little thing was here and there and everywhere, yet Rylton could not say she poached. Whatever she did, however, she won. She does not throw up her cap this time perhaps she had seen a little of that laughter before but she claps her hands joyfully, and pats Rylton's arm afterwards in a bon camarade fashion that seems to amuse him.
Chichester shake with laughter. "He'll find it a slight difference after Lady Rylton's waltzing," says she to Marryatt. "He'll find a difference in every way. Lady Selton is devoted to her husband " "And Lady Rylton " "Well!" He hesitates. "How vague! But I know, I know! By-the-bye," with a swift change of tone that quite deceives him, "which do you admire most?" "Oh, Lady Rylton, of course.
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