The Duke, however, perfectly
understood him. 'In the meantime, they were not seeing each
other.'
'Nor writing?'
'I think not.'
'Mrs Finn has known it all.'
'Mrs Finn!'
'Certainly. She has known all through.'
'I do not see how it can have been so.'
'He told me so himself,' said the Duke, unwittingly putting words
into Tregear's mouth which Tregear had never uttered. 'There must
be an end of this. I will speak to your sister. In the meantime,
the less, I think, you see of Mr Tregear the better. Of course it
is out of the question he should be allowed to remain in this
house. You will make him understand that at once, if you please.'
'Oh, certainly,' said Silverbridge.
CHAPTER 8
He is a Gentleman
The Duke returned to Matching an almost broken-hearted man. He had
intended to go down into Barsetshire, in reference to the coming
elections;--not with the view of interfering in any unlordly, or
rather, unpeerlike fashion, but thinking that if his eldest son
were to stand for the county in a proper constitutional spirit, as
the eldest son of so great a county magnate ought to do, his
presence at Gatherum Castle, among his own people, might properly
be serviceable, and would certainly be gracious.
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