And some people will believe you, but most people will believe me.

And of course I shall settle a good lump sum on Mary Bride when she marries, and leave her all the unentailed property." "Oh, but it's impossible!" cried the duchess writhing in her chair.
"Leaving your child out in the cold for a perfect stranger!" "But she isn't.

I tell you, she and I get on like a house on fire," said the duke with some impatience.

"And it's perfectly all right; you stick to your Marion; and I'll stick to mine." The duchess rose and cried: "It's abominable! The most cold-blooded thing I ever heard of! And if you think you're going to get rid of us like this, you're wrong! I stay here till this matter has been put right." "Oh, I don't want to get rid of _you_," said the duke amiably.
The duchess ground her teeth and walked across the lawn with the air of a Boadicea saving her country.

The duke watched her graceful figure till it disappeared through a long window into the pink drawing-room, with admiring eyes.