She had at last been quite
stern in her decision.
Now she was broken-hearted because she found that he had left her
in very truth. Oh yes;--she would marry the boy, if she could so
arrange. Since that meeting at Richmond he had sent her the ring
reset. She was to meet him down in Scotland within a week or two
from the present time. Mrs Montacute Jones had managed that. He
had all but offered to her a second time at Richmond. But all that
would not serve to make her happy. She declared to herself that
she did not wish to see Frank Tregear again; but still it was a
misery to her that his heart should in truth be given to another
woman.
CHAPTER 38
Crummie-Toddie
Almost at the last moment Silverbridge and his brother Gerald were
induced to join Lord Popplecourt's shooting-party in Scotland.
The party perhaps might more properly be called the party of
Reginald Dobbes, who as a man knowing in such matters. It was he
who made the party up. Popplecourt and Silverbridge were to share
the expense between them, each bringing three guns.
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