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"I know all about it!" cried Lady Rollinson, with an indignant movement of her fan. "You tried to bully the poor thing into silence. You may save yourself any further trouble, Captain Fyffe. My mind is made up, and I shall do what I have decided to do.
My mind was so full of my beautiful new acquaintance that I must needs approach her in my talk, and I used Jack Rollinson as a sort of stalking-horse. Brunow, as I found out later on, was in love with her-after his fashion which, as I shall have to show you, was not very profound or manly; but, at any rate, he was glad of a chance to talk about her, and I was glad to listen.
Then I waited until the house was quite silent, and the last waiter had shuffled along the corridor. It was one o'clock in the morning before I was satisfied that the whole house had sunk to slumber, and then I marched straight to the room in which Lady Rollinson had last decisively refused to grant me a moment's interview.
In my days," she added, beginning to cry, which made the situation more intolerable than ever "in my days, when a gentleman was told by a lady that his presence was unwelcome in her house he would never have intruded." "My dear Lady Rollinson," I responded, controlling myself with a very considerable effort, "you must listen to reason.
Rollinson knew exactly what was the matter with Archibald especially as he has seen reason to modify his first impressions more than once during the last fifty years.
"Ah, well," she cried, in a voice of despair, "I do not even know that I can blame you; but am I to be sure that I can buy your silence?" "That you can buy my silence?" I repeated. "Yes," she answered, despondently, looking up at me with tear-stained eyes. "I mean will you say nothing if I promise to visit Lady Rollinson no more and to meet Miss Rossano no more?
Lady Rollinson had driven down from London in great apparent haste, and had taken the young lady back to town with her.
If I were in your place, sir," he added, "I should appeal to the police." This advice was so hopelessly astray from the point that I dismissed the man, though I had to promise him that Lady Rollinson should suffer no further annoyance.
"It has been the habit of my life," I answered, "to run as few risks as possible." "I hardly know if we have the right to ask you to undertake such a hair-brained enterprise," she said again. "I have not waited to be asked, Lady Rollinson. I am a volunteer." "Give us at least a hint of what you propose to do," urged her ladyship. "Let us be sure that you do not intend to run into danger."
"I am not in the least afraid of you, Captain Fyffe; my servants are in the house, and I can ring for them at any minute." This cooled me, even in the middle of my exasperation and the galling sense of impotence I felt. "I beg your pardon, Lady Rollinson. I am bewildered by your manner.
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