Mary Scott
sat behind the tea-tray, and laughed at his expression.
"I will read your thoughts," she exclaimed. "You are wondering how you
will get out of this room without knocking anything over."
"On the contrary," he answered, "I was wondering how I ever got in."
"You were really very clever. Now do have some more tea, and tell me
all the news."
"I will have the tea, if you please," he answered, "and you shall have
the news, such as it is."
"First of all then," she said, "I hear that you are leaving Medchester,
giving up your business and coming to live in London, and that you have
had some money left you. Do you know that all this sounds very
mysterious?"
"I admit it," he answered, slowly stirring his tea. "Yet in the
main--it is true."
"How nice to hear all about it," she sighed, contentedly. "You know I
have scarcely had a word with you while my uncle and cousins were up.
Selina monopolized you most disgracefully."
He looked at her with twinkling eyes.
"Selina was very amusing," he said.
"You seemed to find her so," she answered. "But Selina isn't here now,
and you have to entertain me.
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