'Come upstairs into my own room,--it is nicer than this,' said Lady
Mabel, and they went from the dining-room into a pretty little
sitting-room with which Silverbridge was very well acquainted.
'Have you heard of Miss Boncassen?' Mary said she had heard
something of Miss Boncassen's great beauty. 'Everybody is talking
about her. Your brother met at Mrs Montacute Jones's garden-party,
and was made a conquest of instantly.'
'I wasn't made a conquest of at all,' said Silverbridge.
'Then he ought to have been made a conquest of. I should be if I
were a man. I think she is the loveliest person to look at and the
nicest person to listen to that I ever came across. We all feel
that, as far as this season is concerned, we are cut out. But we
don't mind it so much because she is a foreigner.' Then just as
she said this the door was opened and Frank Tregear was announced.
Everybody present there knew as well as does the reader, what was
the connection between Tregear and Lady Mary Palliser. And each
knew that the other knew it. It was therefore impossible for them
not to feel themselves guilty among themselves.
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