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'It didn't take long for me to conceive a genuine liking for you, and, of course, I knew all the time that you had only done your duty. Drake made no response whatever to Mr. Le Mesurier's sentiment. 'I understand, then, he said, 'that Miss Le Mesurier was engaged to Gorley at the time of his death? 'Oh dear, no, exclaimed the other, starting up from his chair.
"Been up to Jean's much of late?" he asked, trudging on again. "No, not I," said Peter. "Hangin' round in the village isn't much after my mind." "Best send Louise instead, hey?" Peter wheeled his huge frame round in a moment. "What do you mean, man?" he demanded, in a voice that seemed to come from his feet. Mesurier's face was devoid of expression, as he replied, "Nothing, to be sure.
Le Mesurier's voice, a consciousness of some thought in his daughter's mind which he would not openly acknowledge her to possess. The perception quickened Mallinson's conjecture into a positive conviction. There was evidently some fact about Drake, some incident perhaps in his life which brought him into relations with the Le Mesuriers, relations ignored by Drake, but known by Mr.
Willoughby did not display her usual alacrity to engage in the oft-repeated combat as to Miss Le Mesurier's merits. Her face grew serious again. 'Does Clarice care for him, you think? Fielding was admiring Mrs. Willoughby's eyes at the moment, and answered absently. 'Conway, you mean? 'No, no! How wilfully irritating you are! This Mr. Drake, of course.
They walked across Leicester Square towards St. James's Street, each occupied with his own thoughts. Fielding's were of an unusually stimulating kind; he foresaw the possibility of a very diverting comedy, to be played chiefly for his amusement and partly for Miss Le Mesurier's, by Clarice herself, Drake, and Mallinson.
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