If he
does not, I shall not.
'Pray write me at once, and tell me when I shall see you.
'Your affectionate Cousin,
'F. O. TREGEAR.'
In answer to this there came a note in a very few words. She
congratulated him,--not very warmly,--but expressed a hope that she
might see him soon. But she told him not to come to Brighton. The
Earl was better but very cross, and she would be up in town before
long.
Towards the end of the month it became suddenly known in London
that Lord Grex had died at Brighton. There was a Garter to be
given away, and everybody was filled with regret that such an
ornament to the Peerage should have departed from them. The
conservative papers remembered how excellent a politician he had
been in his younger days, and the world was informed that the
family of Grex of Grex was about the oldest in Great Britain of
which authentic records were in existence. Then there came another
note from Lady Mabel to Tregear.
'I shall be in town on the thirty-first in the old house, with
Miss Cassewary, and will see you if can come down on the first.
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