'
'Come along, Miss Cassewary,' said she. 'We will go around the
haycocks yet once again.' So they turned and the two ladies
accompanied Lord Silverbridge.
But this was not what he wanted. He could not say what he had to
say in the presence of Miss Cassewary,--nor could he ask her to
take herself off in another direction. Nor could he take himself
off. Now that he had joined himself to these two ladies he must
make with them the tour of the gardens. All this made him cross.
'These kind of things are a great bore,' he said.
'I dare say you would rather be in the House of Commons;--or,
better still, at the Beargarden.'
'You mean to be ill-natured when you say that, Lady Mab.'
'You ask me to come and walk with you, and then you tell us that
we are bores!'
'I did nothing of the kind.'
'I should have thought that you would be particularly pleased with
yourself for coming here today, seeing that you have made Miss
Boncassen's acquaintance. To be allowed to walk half and hour
alone with the acknowledged beauty of the two hemispheres ought to
be enough even for Lord Silverbridge.
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