' Mary was
silent, feeling the complication of the difficulties. 'Do you not
like her?' asked the Duke.
'Very much indeed,' said Mary.
'Then let us fix a day and ask them. If you will come to me after
dinner with an almanac we will arrange it. Of course you will
invite Miss Cassewary too?'
The complication seemed to be very bad indeed. In the first place
was it not clear that she, Lady Mary, ought not to be a party to
asking Miss Boncassen to meet her brother at Matching? Would it
not be imperative on her part to tell her father the whole story?
And yet how could she do that? It had been told to her in
confidence, and she remembered what her own feelings had been when
Mrs Finn had suggested the propriety of telling the story which
had been told to her! And how would it be possible to ask Lady
Mabel to come to Matching to meet Miss Boncassen in the presence
of Silverbridge! If the party could be made up without
Silverbridge things might run smoothly.
As she was thinking of this in her own room, thinking also how
happy she could be if one other name could be added to the list of
guests, the Duke had gone alone into his library.
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