"
"But he's going to marry that girl."
"Oh, he doesn't care about her,"said Miss Dolly reassuringly.
"It's the money, you know. He hadn't a farthing of his own.
Now he'll be set up for life."
"And it's all due to you!" said I admiringly.
"Well, it is, really."
"I don't call her such a bad-looking girl, though." (I hadn't
seen her face.)
"Mr. Carter! She's hideous!"
I dropped that subject.
"And now," said Miss Dolly again, "he cuts me dead!"
"It is the height of ingratitude. Why, to love you was a liberal
education!"
"Yes, wasn't it? How nicely you put that. A liberal education!'
I shall tell Archie." (Archie is Lord Mickleham.)
"What, about Phil Meadows?"
"Goodness me, no, Mr. Carter. Just what you said, you know."
"But why not tell Mickleham about Phil Meadows?" I urged. "It's
all to your credit, you know."
"I know, but men are so foolish. You see, Archie thinks--"
"Of course he does."
"You might let me finish."
"Archie thinks you were never in love before."
"Yes, he does. Well, of course, I wasn't in love with Phil--"
"Not a little bit?"
"Oh, well--"
"Nor with any one else?"
Miss Dolly looked for an instant in my direction.
"Nor with any one else? said I.
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