Ask that Lady
Mabel;--ask your father,--ask that Lady Cantrip. And above all, ask
yourself. And allow me to require you to take three months to do
this. Do not come to see me for three months.'
'And then?'
'What may happen then I cannot tell, for I want three months also
to think of it myself. Till then, good-bye.' She gave him her
hand and left it in his for a few seconds. He tried to draw her to
him, but she resisted him, still smiling. Then she left him.
CHAPTER 41
Ischl
It was custom with Mrs Finn almost every autumn to go off to
Vienna, where she possessed considerable property, and there to
inspect the circumstances of her estate. Sometimes her husband
would accompany her, and he did so in this year of which we are
now speaking. One morning in September they were together at an
hotel at Ischi, whither they had come from Vienna, when as they
went through the hall into the courtyard, they came, in the very
doorway, upon the Duke of Omnium and his daughter. The Duke and
Lady Mary had just arrived, having passed through the mountains
from the salt-mine district, and were about to take up their
residence in the hotel for a few days.
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