If a word might
have an effect it would be her duty to speak the word. 'I think
you are wrong there, Lord Silverbridge.'
'I am sure I am right.'
'What have you yourself felt about your sister and Mr Tregear?'
'It is altogether different;--altogether. Frank's wife will be
simply his wife. Mine, should I outlive my father, will be the
Duchess of Omnium.'
'But your father? I have heard you speak with bitter regret of
this affair of Lady Mary's because it vexes him. Would your
marriage with an American lady vex him less?'
'Why should it vex him at all? Is she vulgar, or ill to look at,
or stupid?'
'Think of her mother.'
'I am not going to marry her mother. Or for that matter am I going
to marry her. You are taking all that for granted in most unfair
way.'
'How can I help it after what I saw yesterday?'
'I will not talk any more about it. We had better go down or we
shall get no lunch.' Lady Mabel, as she followed him, tried to
make herself believe that all her sorrow came from regret that so
fine a scion of the British nobility should throw himself away
upon an American adventuress.
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