Thorne, and I
also condemn myself. It is not that I have done wrong, but the game
is not worth the candle."
"Ah; that's the question."
"The game is not worth the candle. And yet it was a triumph to have
both the duke and Tom Towers. You must confess that I have not
managed badly." Soon after that the Greshams went away, and in an
hour's time or so, Miss Dunstable was allowed to drag herself to her
own bed.
That is the great question to be asked on all such occasions, "Is the
game worth the candle?"
CHAPTER XXX
The Grantly Triumph
It has been mentioned cursorily--the reader, no doubt, will have
forgotten it--that Mrs. Grantly was not specially invited by her
husband to go up to town with a view of being present at Miss
Dunstable's party. Mrs. Grantly said nothing on the subject, but she
was somewhat chagrined; not on account of the loss she sustained with
reference to that celebrated assembly, but because she felt that her
daughter's affairs required the supervision of a mother's eye. She
also doubted the final ratification of that Lufton-Grantly treaty,
and, doubting it, she did not feel quite satisfied that her daughter
should be left in Lady Lufton's hands. She had said a word or two to
the archdeacon before he went up, but only a word or two, for she
hesitated to trust him in so delicate a matter.
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