He certainly had
not intended to say anything about Lady Mab, but on the spur of
the moment it had all come out. Now at any rate it was decided for
him that he must, in set terms, ask her to be his wife. The scene
which had just occurred had made him thoroughly sick of Major
Tifto. He must get rid of the Major, and there could be no way of
doing this at once so easy and so little open to observation as
marriage. If he were but once engaged to Mabel Grex the dismissal
of Tifto would be quite a matter of course. He would see Lady
Mabel again on the morrow and ask her in direct language to be his
wife.
CHAPTER 28
Mrs Montacute Jones's Garden-Party
It was known to all the world that Mrs Montacute Jones's first
great garden-party was to come off on Wednesday, the sixteenth of
June, at Roehampton. Mrs Montacute Jones, who lived in Grosvenor
Place and had a country house in Gloucestershire, and a place for
young men to shoot at in Scotland, also kept a suburban elysium in
Roehampton, in order that she might give two garden-parties every
year.
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