Part 28 (1/2)
”My husband!” she laughed a little derisively ”No, he wouldn't come here of all places--just now He dined, and then pleaded a political engagement I was supposed to do the same, but I didn't”
”You know,” he said with so”
She nodded
”Of course I want to hear how she does it”
”She does it nificently,” he declared ”I think--we all think that she is wonderful”
She looked at him with curious eyes
”I reht I saw you, you spoke of my sister as your friend Have you seenat all,” he answered
The sently backwards and forwards She atching him intently
”Do you know,” she said, ”that every one is re how ill you look I too can see it What has been the matter?”
”Toothache,” he answered laconically
She looked away
”You ht at least,” she murmured, ”have invented a ht,” he answered, ”have gone further still I ht have told you the truth”
”Has my sister been unkind to you?”
”The family,” he declared, ”has not treated me with consideration”
She looked at him doubtfully
”You promised faithfully to be there,” he said slowly ”I loathe afternoon concerts, and----”
She was really like her sister he thought, impressed for a ers rested upon his
”You were really at Moulton House,” she exclaimed penitently ”I am so sorry I had a perfect shoal of callers People ould not go I only arrived when everybody was co away”
A littleof ”Alcide” Then a burst of applause She was standing there, s at the audience as at her friends From the first there had always been between her and her listeners that electrical syenius see
Ennison listened, and his eyes glowed Lady Ferringhall listened, and her cheeks grew pale Her whole face stiffened with suppressed anger