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Updated: June 13, 2025
"Something happened there I don't know what to upset Penelope very much. She never spoke a word coming home, and she has gone straight up to her room and locked herself in. Somehow or other the Prince managed to offend her. I am sure of that, Charlie!" "I'm beastly sorry," Somerfield answered. "I meant to say that I was jolly glad to hear it." The Duchess coughed.
He righted himself almost at once, however, and came on. Then they reached the water jump. There was a sudden silence on the stand and the hillside. Somerfield took off first, the Prince lying well away from him. Both cleared it, but whereas Lady Grace's mare jumped wide and clear, and her rider never even faltered in his saddle, Somerfield lost all his lead and only just kept his seat.
"Any amount of news here, Mummy," Nora intervened cheerfully, "and heaps of excitement. We had a Zeppelin over Dutchman's Common last night, and she lost her observation car. Mr. Somerfield took me up there this afternoon, and I found a German hat. No one else got a thing, and, would you believe it, those children over there tried to take it away from me." Her stepmother smiled faintly.
I guess they boarded the train somehow, or lay hidden in it when it started, and relieved him of a good bit of his savings." "But his money was found upon him," Somerfield objected. "Some of it," Mr. Coulson answered, "some of it. That's just about the only thing that I do know of my own.
Won't you tell me what it is? You look worried." She returned his anxious gaze, dry-eyed but speechless. "Has that fellow, Prince Maiyo, done or said anything " She interrupted him. "No!" she cried. "No! don't mention his name, please! I don't want to hear his name again just now." "For my part," Somerfield said bitterly, "I never want to hear it again as long as I live!"
We must ask Miss Morse, I think, to help us to forget. They say," he continued, "that it is the young ladies of your country who hold open the gates of Paradise for their menkind." He was looking into her eyes. His tone was half bantering, half serious. From across the table Penelope knew that Somerfield was watching her closely.
Somerfield, hearing his name, came up to them. The Duchess, too, strolled over to the fire. The Prime Minister and Bransome returned with Maiyo towards the corner of the room where they had been sitting. "Prince," the Prime Minister said, "we have been talking about your speech at the Herrick Club last night." The Prince smiled a little gravely. "Did I say too much?" he asked.
Nothing the Prince could have said would have astonished the little company more. Somerfield came to a standstill in the middle of the room, with a cup of tea in one hand and a plate of ham in the other. "You!" Lady Grace exclaimed. "Do you really mean it, Prince?" Penelope cried. "Well, why not?" he asked, himself, in turn, somewhat surprised.
His brother officer stood for a moment looking gravely at the object in question. Then he winked at Somerfield and sighed. "I shall take the whole responsibility," he decided magnanimously, "of saying nothing about the matter. We can't afford to quarrel with Miss Nora, can we, Somerfield?" "Not on your life," that young man agreed. "Sensible boys!" Nora pronounced graciously.
"Charlie," she said, "Right o'!" he interrupted. "Who is it?" "Be careful what you are saying," she continued, "because it isn't any one who wants you to take them out to supper." "I only wish you did," he answered. "It's the Duchess, isn't it?" "The worst of having a distinctive voice," she sighed. "Listen. I want to speak to you." "I am listening hard," Somerfield answered.
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