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"It'll be rather exciting," she said, "to see these Torrington people. I don't think I've ever come across a regular, full-blown Marquis before. Lord Thormanby is a peer of course, but he doesn't soar to those giddy heights. I suppose he'll sit on us frightfully if we dare to speak. Not that I mean to try.
"Won't you stay for dinner?" said my mother to Miss Battersby. "We can send you home afterward." "Oh, no. The car is waiting for me at the rectory. I told the man to put up. Lord Thormanby " "You might break it to him," I said. "He'll be greatly delighted," said Miss Battersby. "No, he won't," I said. "At least I shall be very much surprised if he is.
I did not care to make more inquiries about the Archdeacon. "Well," I said, "if neither he nor Thormanby is with you, who is?" "Miss Battersby for one. She volunteered." I felt relieved. Miss Battersby is never formidable. "She won't matter," I said. "Lalage and Hilda will put her to bed and keep her there. That's what they did with her on the way to Lisbon." "And Miss Pettigrew," said the Canon.
Selby-Harrison made sure of that before we did it, so it doesn't break up the continuity, which is most important for us all. Lord Thormanby and the Archdeacon were jawing away like anything while we were searching about for the hanker, and took no notice of us, although the Archdeacon is frightfully polite now as a rule, quite different from what he used to be.
He had washed his hands and put the whole responsibility on the shoulders of Miss Battersby and Miss Pettigrew. I felt it my duty to bring this home to his conscience. "Why didn't you come?" I asked. "We'd have been very pleased to see you." "Peers," he replied, "are not allowed to interfere in elections." This, of course, was a mere subterfuge. I was not inclined to let Thormanby escape.
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