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Then in the midst of her tirade she suddenly paused, and fixing Ashe with her brilliant eyes, she asked him a surprising question, in a changed and steady voice: "Is Lady Tranmore not well?" Ashe was fairly startled. "Thank you, I left her quite well. Have you " "Did maman ask her to come to-night?" It was Ashe's turn to redden. "I don't know. But we are in mourning, you see, for my brother."
In spite of short sight, she saw things that escaped most other people; her tongue was rarely at a loss; she was, on the whole, a good friend, though never an unreflecting one; and what she forgave might be safely reckoned as not worth resenting. Elizabeth Tranmore received Mary's remark with reluctant consent. Lady Parham from the English aristocratic stand-point was not well-born.
And there had been many hours of high reward. Kitty had thrown herself at first upon William's mother with all the effusion possible. She had been docile, caressing, brilliant. Lady Tranmore had become almost as proud of her gifts, her social effect, and her fast advancing beauty as Ashe himself.
He declared that London was more agreeable than he had ever known it, and that after his three years' absence nobody looked a day older. Then he inquired after Ashe. Lady Tranmore replied that William was well, but hard-worked; she hoped to persuade him to get a few days abroad at Whitsuntide. Her manner was quiet, without a trace of either discourtesy or effusion.
Suddenly she saw Kitty's gloves Kitty's torn and soiled gloves lying on the floor. She clasped her trembling hands, trying to steady herself. Husband and wife were together. What tragedy was passing between them? Of course there might have been an accident; her thoughts might be all mistake and illusion. But Lady Tranmore hardly allowed herself to encourage the alternative of hope.
Mary Lyster referred to a copy of a "Filippo Lippi Annunciation" which he had just executed in water-color for Lady Tranmore, to whom he was devoted. He was, however, devoted to a good many peeresses, with whom he took tea, and for whom he undertook many harmless and elegant services.
"You are very rich, aren't you?" she said, in a muffled voice. "I am well off. I can give you all the pretty things you want." "And some day you will be Lord Tranmore?" "Yes, when my poor father dies," he said, sighing. He felt her fingers caress his hand again. It was a spirit touch, light and tender. "And every one says you are so clever you have such prospects.
The chorus of fun and pleasure that surrounded her, while he himself sat, tired and bored, between Lady Edith Manley and Lady Tranmore, did but make her offence the greater in the eyes of Lord Parham. He had so far buried it in a complete and magnificent silence. The meeting between him and his hostess before dinner had been marked by a strict conformity to all the rules.
Then after this pas seul, in the presence of the crowded drawing-room, had been duly executed, Kitty retired to her Bishop, and Lord Parham led forth Lady Tranmore. "What a lovely moon!" said Lady Edith Manley to the Dean. "It makes even this house look romantic."
"I heard that she was apparently very ill when she reached Treviso, but that she had rallied under Alice's nursing. Lady Alice wrote to my mother." "Did she tell Lady Tranmore anything of Lady Kitty's state of mind?" said the Dean, after a pause. Ashe also was slow in answering. At last he said: "I understand there has been great regret for the past." "Regret!" cried the Dean.
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