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"Is it true that Lord Parham may possibly give him an appointment?" Lady Parham turned away in annoyance. "Is that one of the inventions going about?" "There are so many," said Lady Tranmore. At that moment, however, to her infinite relief, her companion abruptly deserted her. She was free to observe the two distant figures in conversation Geoffrey Cliffe and Mr.
Lady Tranmore looked back upon them with feelings that wavered like smoke before a wind. A year of excitement, a year of illness, a year of extravagance, shaken moreover by many strange gusts of temper and caprice, it was so she might have summarized them. First, a most promising début in London.
"Yes, I would like to stay with Lady Tranmore. But will your cousin be there?" "Miss Lyster?" Kitty nodded. "How can I tell? Of course, she is often there." "It is quite curious," said Kitty, after reflection, "how we dislike each other. And it is so odd. You know most people like me!" She looked up at him without a trace of coquetry, rather with a certain timidity that feared possible rebuff.
Before her guest's arrival, Lady Tranmore wandered about her rooms, unable to rest, unable even to read the evening papers on Ashe's speech, so possessed was she still by her altercation with Kitty, and by the foreboding sense of what it meant.
"Didn't I?" she said, smiling. He groaned, and took another piece of tea-cake. "My own family at least, don't you think, might omit that?" "H'm, sir So you didn't believe a word of your own speeches?" said Lady Tranmore, as she stood behind him and smoothed his hair back from his forehead. "Well, who does?" He looked up gayly and kissed the tips of her fingers.
Lady Tranmore was well aware that there was, at any rate, no truth in the last report; but she also knew that there was a tone of sharpness in the London chatter that was new with regard to Kitty. It was as though a certain indulgence was wearing out, and what had been amusement was passing into criticism.
"It is no good ignoring the press," said Mary, holding herself gracefully erect. "And the Bishop quite agrees with me." Lady Tranmore sank back in her seat. "You discussed it with the Bishop?" It was now some time since Mary had last brought the family Bishop her cousin, and Lady Tranmore's to bear upon an argument between them.
He smiled, but, as it seemed to his mother, with some effort. "William! as a public man " He interrupted her. "If I can be both Kitty's husband and a public man, well and good. If not, then I shall be " "Kitty's husband?" cried Lady Tranmore, with an accent of bitterness, almost of sarcasm, of which she instantly repented her. She changed her tone.
"There are so many other ways now of amusing yourself that's all." "Well, this way will die out," said Lady Tranmore. "The cost of it is too scandalous people's consciences prick them."
Nobody in her own world ever heard her mention the name of Lady Kitty Ashe, largely as that name was beginning to figure in the gossip of the day. But there were few things concerning the Hill Street ménage that Lady Tranmore could not safely and rightly discuss with her; and even Ashe himself went to her for counsel.
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