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Updated: June 10, 2025
"How is Archie ever going to find out whether Lydia cares for him, Zelphine?" This from Walter's writing table, in a stage whisper. "Even you, inveterate matchmaker that you are, have met your Waterloo for once. Angela, with all her roguish ways, wasn't a patch to this demure Lydia.
"How could I help asking him," this in Walter's most persuasive tone, "when he has taken the trouble to come over here to dine with us? In common decency I could do nothing else." "Of course nothing will ever come of this, as M. La Tour's parents have no doubt arranged an advantageous marriage for him, but " "Do you want anything to come of it, Zelphine?" "How you tease!
You know very well that I do not; but poor Archie's holiday is being spoiled, all the same." "Well, he can't go with us anyhow, Zelphine dear, for to-morrow is his mother's birthday, and he will have to leave here betimes, in order to be at home to lunch with Madame La Tour. I must go out on the terrace now and comfort Archie."
"That may be all quite true, as you say, dear Miss Mott; but I didn't come here to be feasted on horrors. I can get quite enough of them in the newspapers at home, and it isn't good for you and Zelphine either. You both look quite pale; let us leave these rooms that reek with blood and crime and find something more cheerful to occupy us."
Upon which I suggested that Walter should mention the engagement to M. La Tour, quite casually, in the course of conversation. "Why not tell him yourself, Zelphine? You are so much more adroit at that sort of thing." "It is really becoming embarrassing. Some flowers came last night, forget-me-nots again, to Archie's amusement.
"And is that all, Zelphine, and don't you think it about time that they should learn better; and who is the he in question, anyhow?" When I explained about the Frenchman, who was seated behind him and understood every invidious word, Walter, instead of being contrite, said airily that he regretted that he had not spoken French as that would probably have been beyond Mr. Crapaud's comprehension.
Now if Lydia had been anything but just ordinarily nice and pleasant to him, as she is to everyone, it would be different." "Well, and even if she had been more than ordinarily nice to La Tour why do you trouble yourself about it, Zelphine? It is something that only concerns Lydia and La Tour, and Archie perhaps in a way, but we really have nothing to do with it."
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