2/21 'And she will come again, with a little pressure. Lord, I know the women! So should you.' 'She came before because--well, I do not quite know why she came,' Mr. I am a man of the world, I know--' 'All of it, my Macaroni!' 'But I cannot be--be mixed up in such a matter as this, my dear sir.' 'All the same, you have got to get her,' was the stubborn answer. 'Or I write to my lady and tell her you kept mum about my wound. And you will not like that, my tulip.' On that point he was right; for if there was a person in the world of whom Mr.Thomasson stood in especial awe, it was of Lady Dunborough. |