11/15 And you let him take you riding....' 'Yes, he knows now that I CAN ride.' 'And he's at Government House nearly every day--I can't think what Lady Tallant is about to ask him so often to dinner.' 'She likes him because he takes Luke off her hands. You know we've nick-named him the Unconstitutional Adviser.' 'That's rubbish. You sing to him.' 'What harm is there in my singing to Colin McKeith ?' 'As if you didn't know well enough that you're perfectly irresistible when you look at a man while you're singing those Neapolitan things. Give it up.' 'I can't do that, Joan.' She spoke with a strange earnestness. 'Don't you see that it's giving me a chance.' 'Of forgetting Mr Willoughby Maule!' 'Yes.... |