'He's just the fellow,' continued Popplecourt, 'to
think that some princess has fallen in love with him.' Then the
Duke left the room.
'You had better not talk to him about Mr Tregear,' said Lady
Cantrip.
'Why not?'
'I don't know whether he approves of the intimacy between him and
Lord Silverbridge.'
'I should think not;--a man without any position or a shilling in
the world.'
'The Duke is peculiar. If a subject is distasteful to him he does
not like it to be mentioned. You had better not mention Mr
Tregear,' Lady Cantrip as she said this blushed inwardly at her
own hypocrisy.
It was of course contrived at dinner that Lord Popplecourt should
take out Lady Mary. It is impossible to discover how such things
get wind, but there was already an idea prevalent at Custins that
Lord Popplecourt had matrimonial views, and that these views were
looked upon favourably. 'You may be quite sure of it, Mr Lupton,'
Lady Adelaide FitzHoward had said. 'I'll make a bet they're
married before this time next year.'
'It will be a terrible case of Beauty and the Beast,' said Lupton.
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