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Have you been anxious, too? I am indeed honoured." She swept him a curtsey, her face all dimples and laughter. "We've had the jolliest time," she declared. "We motored to Wynhampton and saw the last of the races. After that, we dined at a dear little place with a duckpond at the bottom of the garden. And finally we returned it ought to have been by moonlight, only there was no moon.
"She has gone off somewhere with that bounder Brandon," he said. "They got down to tea, and went off again in the motor afterwards, Mrs. Lockyard doesn't seem to know for certain where." "Phil!" she exclaimed in consternation, and added with her eyes on Caryl, "What is to be done? What can be done?" Caryl made quiet reply: "There was some talk of Wynhampton.
Abingdon himself and most of his guests were in favour of attending an aviation meeting at Wynhampton a few miles away. Caryl was not present, but as she passed through the hall a little later, he came in at the front door. "I was just coming to you," he remarked, pausing to flick the ash from his cigarette before closing the door.
You'll have to hold the lantern. Mind how you get on board." As he pushed out from the bank, he told her something of his arrangements. "There's a motor waiting not the one Polly usually hires, but it's quite a decent little car. By the way, she has gone straight up to Town from Wynhampton; said we should do our eloping best alone.
"I have been making arrangements for you to drive to Wynhampton with me." Doris made a stiff movement that seemed almost mechanical. But the next moment she recovered her self-control. Why was she afraid of this man, she asked herself desperately? No man had ever managed to frighten her before. "I think I should prefer to go in the motor," she said, and smiled with quivering lips.
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