"
"I should like to satisfy myself on that score," rejoined Wild, drily. But she could see that Diane
watched her more closely now, and in a cat-like way. He had dungarees on and a blue work shirt. All
right! I’m off. There was a certain air of forced fortuity in his manner. . What can she be? The wife of a country
tradesman, or a duchess? And such a meek little husband too. It is so that I may marry an Englishman. Will
you tell her that?"
"I will," replied Thames, earnestly. She tried to imagine the collective effect of the Fadden Ball; she had never
seen a fancy-dress gathering in her life. CHAPTER XVIII
The doctor reached for the key and studied it sombrely. Both had dropped the rather elaborate politeness of the
dining-room, and in their faces an impartial observer would have discovered
little lines of obstinate wilfulness in common; a certain hardness—sharp, indeed,
in the father and softly rounded in the daughter—but hardness nevertheless, that
made every compromise a bargain and every charity a discount.
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