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He came to dinner that night, and fell madly in love with you, and at once asked to marry you himself, while he insisted upon your fortune being tied up entirely upon you, and any children that you might have, only allowing me to pay off the mortgages on Wrayth for himself. It would be impossible for a man to have behaved more like a gentleman.
"I am sure you will be interested in it, it is so old." "Wr ayth ?" Zara faltered. She had never heard of it! What was Wrayth? "Perhaps I do not pronounce it as you are accustomed to think of it," Ethelrida said kindly. She was absolutely startled at the other's ignorance. "Tristram's place, I mean.
During the last eight hundred years, ever since Amaury Guiscard of that house of Hauteville whose daring deeds gave sovereigns to half Europe, had come over with his Duke William, and had been rewarded by the gift of the Wrayth lands seized from the Saxons his descendants had periodically done madly adventurous things. Perhaps the quality was coming out in him!
She will be awfully rich, which is rather a pity in a sense though I suppose we shall live at Wrayth again, and all that but I need not tell you I am not marrying her for such a reason." "No, I know you," Lady Tancred said, "but I cannot agree with you about its being a pity that she is rich.
She would begin to-morrow, if she could. Then she remembered Lady Ethelrida's words at the dinner party was it possible that was only three weeks ago this very night the words that she had spoken so unconsciously, when she had showed so plainly the family feeling about Tristram and Cyril being the last in the male line of Tancred of Wrayth.
His mother was one of the beauties, when I first put on a cuirass." Zara tried to control her interest, and merely said, "Yes?" "Are you looking forward to the reception at Wrayth on Monday? I always wonder how a person unaccustomed to England would view all the speeches and dinners, the bonfire, and triumphal arches, and those things of a home-coming. Rather an ordeal, I expect."
"And I will pray to God that you have strong, beautiful children, Tristram, so that there may in years to come be no lack of the Tancreds of Wrayth." When he got outside in the street the moonlight flooded the road, so he sent his motor away and decided to walk.
Evidently he had been very much annoyed at that, but this was the first time he had even suggested he had noticed she was troubled about anything, except that day in the garden at Wrayth. Her motives were so perfectly innocent that not the faintest idea even yet dawned upon her that anything she had ever done could even look suspicious.
People left by all sorts of trains and motors in the morning; but there were still one or two remaining, when the bride and bridegroom made their departure, in their beautiful new car with its smart servants, which had come to fetch them, and take them to Wrayth.
And Zara in her weakness had cried for a long time after he had left. And then she realized that all that part of her life was over now, and the outlook of what was to come held out no hope. Francis Markrute had telegraphed to Wrayth, to try and find Tristram, but he was not there. He had not gone there at all.
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