'
'I didn't name the horse.'
'I'd have changed it. But is it not very impudent of me to be
finding fault with you the first time I have ever met you? Shall
you have a horse at Ascot?'
'There will be something going, I suppose. Nothing that I care
about.' Lord Silverbridge had made up his mind that he would not
go to the races with Tifto before the Leger. The Leger would be an
affair of such moment as to demand his presence. After that should
come the complete rupture between him and Tifto.
Then there was movement among the elders, and Lord Silverbridge
soon found himself walking alone with Miss Boncassen. It seemed to
her to be quite natural to do so, and there certainly was no
reason why he should decline anything so pleasant. It was thus
that he had intended to walk with Mabel Grex;--only as yet he had
not found her. 'Oh, yes,' said Miss Boncassen, when they had been
together about twenty minutes; 'we shall be here all the summer,
and the fall, and all the winter. Indeed father means to read
every book in the British Museum before he goes back.
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