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Updated: June 24, 2025
"Lady Laura has been doing wonders all the evening," said Captain Westleigh. "She has been as ubiquitous as Richmond at Bosworth, and she has the talent of never seeming tired." Clarissa took the first opportunity of saying good-night. If so important a person as the heiress of Arden Court could depart and not leave a void in the assembly, there could be assuredly no fear that she would be missed.
The gentlemen were a couple of officers Major Mason, stout, dark, hook-nosed, and close-shaven; Captain Westleigh, fair, auburn-moustached and whiskered and a meek-looking gentleman, of that inoffensive curate race, against which Clarissa had been warned by her father. She found herself very quickly at home among these people.
"My dearest Clary, Captain Westleigh tells me that you are quite knocked up " she began; and then recognizing the belated traveller, cried out, "George Fairfax! Is it possible?" "George Fairfax, my dear Lady Laura, and not quite so base a delinquent as he seems.
After luncheon Miss Lovel went off with Captain Westleigh and Miss Fermor Lizzie, the elder and livelier of the two sisters to take her first lesson in croquet.
"There is no occasion for any warning, Lady Laura. Believe me, I am in no danger. I thought Captain Westleigh was very kind, and I liked him because he told me all about the other people; that is all." "Very well, dear. You will see a good many people here; there is an advantage in that one influence neutralises another. But I should really like you to take some notice of that Mr. Halkin.
Clarissa and Barbara Fermor wandered away into the heart of the wood, attended by the indefatigable Captain Westleigh, and sketched little bits of fern and undergrowth in their miniature sketch-books, much to the admiration of the Captain, who declared that Clarissa had a genius for landscape.
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