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It was generally supposed that she had no money, and that the Dunstables made her residence with them worth while. But if so, she had none of the ways of the poor relation. On the contrary, her independence was plain; she had a very free and merry tongue; and Lady Dunstable, who snubbed everybody, never snubbed Mattie Field. Lord Dunstable was clearly devoted to her.
And it was the old comradeship which was failing her; encroached upon, filched from her, by other women; and especially by this exacting, absorbing woman, whose craze for Arthur Meadows's society was rapidly becoming an amusement and a scandal even to those well acquainted with her previous records of the same sort. The end of July arrived. The Dunstables left town.
Doris broke the silence. "You were astonished to find that I know the Dunstables?" "Oh, no! I didn't think " stammered her visitor "I supposed some friend of yours might be staying there." "My husband is staying there," said Doris, quietly. Really it was too much trouble to tell a falsehood. Her pride refused. "Oh, I see!" cried Miss Wigram, though in fact she was more bewildered than before.
The fact is I didn't want to be mixed up with the affair at all. We have only lately made acquaintance with the Dunstables. Lady Dunstable is my husband's friend. I don't like her very much. But neither of us knows her well enough to go and tell her tales about her son." Miss Wigram considered her gentle, troubled eyes bent upon Doris. "Of course I know how many people dislike Lady Dunstable.
On his way through the garden he fell in with Miss Field Mattie Field, the plump and smiling cousin of the house, who was apparently as necessary to the Dunstables in the Highlands, as in London, or at Crosby Ledgers. Her rôle in the Dunstable household seemed to Meadows to be that of "shock absorber."
Doris explained while she set up her easel that for the first time in their lives she and Arthur had been seeing something of the great world, and mildly "doing" the season. Arthur was now continuing the season in Scotland, while she had stayed at home to work and rest. Throughout her talk, she avoided mentioning the Dunstables. "H'm!" said Uncle Charles, "so you've been junketing!"
As for me, after describing a very respectable parabola, my angle of incidence landed me in a bonnet-maker's shop, having passed through a large plate-glass window, and destroyed more leghorns and dunstables than a year's pay would recompense.
Why not laugh at what was odious, show oneself superior to personal slights, and enjoy what could be enjoyed? And above all, why grudge Arthur a woman friend? None of these arguments, however, availed at all to reconcile Doris to the new intimacy growing under her eyes. The Dunstables came to town, and invitations followed. Mr. and Mrs.
As for me, after describing a very respectable parabola, my angle of incidence landed me in a bonnet-maker's shop, having passed through a large plate-glass window, and destroyed more leghorns and dunstables than a year's pay would recompense.
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