9/19 I can always break off if I like it. No one in London has heard of the engagement yet. Just leave me alone for this week to see what I think about it." Then Lady Augustus threw herself back in her chair and went to sleep, or pretended to do so. The other guests were assembled there, and Mrs.Morton was already plainly expressing her anger at the tardiness of her son's guests. The Senator had got hold of Mr.Mainwaring and was asking pressing questions as to church patronage,--a subject not very agreeable to the rector of St.John's, as his living had been bought for him with his wife's money during the incumbency of an old gentleman of seventy-eight. |