CHAPTER 29
The Lovers Meet
Lord Silverbridge found his sister alone. 'I particularly want
you,' said he, 'to come and call upon Lady Mabel Grex. She wishes
to know you, and I am sure you would like her.'
'But I haven't been out anywhere yet,' she said. 'I don't feel as
though I wanted to go anywhere.'
Nevertheless she was very anxious to know Lady Mabel Grex, of whom
she had heard much. A girl if she has had a former love passage
says nothing of it to her new lover; but a man is not so reticent.
Frank Tregear had perhaps not told her everything, but he had told
her something. 'I was very fond of her,--very fond of her,' he had
said. 'And so I am still,' he had added. 'As you are my love of
loves, she is my friend of friends.' Lady Mary had been satisfied
by the assurance, but had become anxious to see the friend of
friends. She resisted at first her brother's entreaties. She felt
that her father in delivering her over to the seclusions of The
Horns had intended to preclude her from showing herself in London.
She was conscious that she was being treated with cruelty, and had
a certain pride in her martyrdom.
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