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As it was, she wanted to say something, and did not know what to say; but her confusion was at once stopped by the entrance of Lady Glencora. "Mrs Sparkes, good morning," said Lady Glencora. "I hope nobody has waited breakfast. Good morning, Mr Bott. Oh, Alice!" "What is the matter?" said Alice, going up to her. "Oh, Alice, such a blow!"
Chiltern, Finn, Glencora Palliser, Laura Kennedy, and Marie Goesler, are subtly conceived and truly worked out. This is enough to make a decent reputation, however flat be the interminable pot-boilers that precede and follow them. The list of Trollope's real successes is not very long.
"You're not tired of me already, I hope," said Lady Glencora. "I didn't mean that," said Alice. "I delight in the drive. But somehow one expects Matching Station to be near Matching." "Ah, yes; that's a great cheat. It's not Matching Station at all but Matching Road Station, and it's eight miles.
"It may be well, Lady Glencora, for other dukes, and for the daughters and heirs and cousins of other dukes, that his Grace should try that question. I will, if you wish it, argue this matter with you on many points, but I will not allow you to say that I should degrade any man whom I might marry. My name is as unstained as your own." "I meant nothing of that," said Lady Glencora.
Lady Glencora once scolded him very vehemently for not bringing the affair to an end. "We shall be going on to Italy before it's settled," she said; "and I don't suppose you can go with us, unless it is settled." Mr Grey protested that he had no intention of going to Italy in either case. "Then it will be put off for another year or two, and you are both of you as old as Adam and Eve already."
Alice followed Lady Glencora across the passage into what she called her dressing-room, and there found herself surrounded by an infinitude of feminine luxuries. The prettiest of tables were there; the easiest of chairs; the most costly of cabinets; the quaintest of old china ornaments.
So circumstanced, Lady Glencora found herself compelled to be often on the road between Matching and London.
Whereupon in the agony of those weeks in which the sagacious heads were resisting her love, Lady Glencora came to her cousin in Queen Anne Street, and told Alice all that tale. "Was Alice," she asked, "afraid of the marquises and the countesses, or of all the rank and all the money which they boasted?" Alice answered that she was not at all afraid of them.
I speak in true kindness, as one woman to another. After all, what does love signify? How much real love do we ever see among married people? Does Lady Glencora Palliser really love her husband, who thinks of nothing in the world but putting taxes on and off?" "Do you love your husband, Mrs. Carbuncle?" "No; but that is a different kind of thing.
Bonteen, with an air of great importance, whispered a word to Phineas. "He has come. He arrived exactly at seven!" "Who has come?" Phineas asked. "The Duke of Omnium!" she said, almost reprimanding him by her tone of voice for his indifference. "There has been a great doubt whether or no he would show himself at last. Lady Glencora told me that he never will pledge himself.
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