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A SCENE ON THE ROAD BACK.
After refusing to quit the grounds of Steignton, in spite of the proprietor, Mrs.Pagnell burst into an agitation to have them be at speed, that they might 'shake the dust of the place from the soles of their feet'; and she hurried past Aminta and Lord Ormont's insolent emissary, carrying Mr.Morsfield beside her, perforce of a series of imperiously-toned vacuous questions, to which he listened in rigid politeness, with the ejaculation steaming off from time to time, 'A scandal!' He shot glances behind him.
Mrs.Pagnell was going too fast.

She, however, world not hear of a halt, and she was his main apology for being present; he was excruciatingly attached to the horrid woman.
Weyburn spoke the commonplaces about regrets to Aminta.
'Believe me, it's long since I have been so happy,' she said.
She had come out of her stupefaction, and she wore no theatrical looks of cheerfulness.
'I regret that you should be dragged away.

But, if you say you do not mind, it will be pleasant to me.

I can excuse Lord Ormont's anger.