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Updated: May 13, 2025
He half turned to her, waiting silently and unmoved, with grave eyes fixed on the distance. She came a step nearer. "Mr. Delcombe told me also, that because of many changes that have taken place in the sixteen years since you cut yourself adrift from home, you are now heir to the marquisate of Toxeter. When the present marquis dies you will succeed him."
What he had to tell her was faintly reassuring. Carew had gone to see him after he left Ailsa, and had asked for proofs of his heirship to the marquisate of Toxeter. Delcombe had been able to satisfy him, and he had been gravely friendly, but that was all. At last, in desperation, Ailsa decided to write to Diana. The mail left that morning, and would reach Johannesburg in three days.
Without doubt the news that he would some day inherit the Marquisate of Toxeter, if he outlived the present owner, had worked a wonderful change in him. He still hated Meryl's fortune, when he dared to let himself think of a future they might possibly share, but at least he could now offer her a position that might one day be among the highest in England.
Even now the thought of the gold was hateful to him. Still, if some day he would indeed be the Marquis of Toxeter!... if he could at least offer her a high position!... if it was no longer a question of going to her empty-handed.... The silence continued, and in the background Ailsa waited and watched.
You and your husband appear to be his only friends, and as a distant connection you might be able to approach him upon a subject where a stranger, or shall we say a forgotten friend, would be diffident." He paused, then added, "I wonder if he has the remotest idea that, owing to several deaths, he is now the next heir to the Marquis of Toxeter?"
And," he added, quietly, "I owe the knowledge of it to Mrs. Grenville." "It must be a legacy?..." "Not exactly. It is only that when the present Marquis of Toxeter dies I shall succeed." "O, my goodness!..." comically. "Am I going to be own cousin to a marchioness?..." "That is as your cousin decrees." Then with a little smile he added, "So the shocks are not all given by you, you see."
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