He is an awfully good sort— and now he has come to me to help him if I can. For this he was prepared; but he was not prepared for the almost insurmountable obstacles which it presented. The haste to send her upon her way now had but one interpretation—the recognition of his own immediate danger, the fear that if this tender association continued, he would end in offering her a calamity quite as impossible as that which had happened—the love of a man who was in all probability older than her father! The hurt was no less intensive because it was so ridiculous. Ennison’s manner was certainly not one of a willing host. “Sir John of course disapproves of me,” she remarked slowly. As Leonardo had himself pronounced, who better than a mountebank to teach of the perils awaiting the unwary? Who better than a wastrel to demonstrate the worth of thrift? And who could instruct better in the matter of affections than one who had thrown them away? ‘If he had loved me,’ she said, in the flat tone she had learned to use to conceal her vulnerable heart, ‘he would have left me at Remenham House to live a life of an English lady. What has been the matter?” “Toothache,” he answered laconically. “That’s the point. ” “To a friend?” “To lodgings—alone. “I think that it is only an idea. He hated travelling second-class with her—indeed, he never did—but he also disliked travelling in the same train when his daughter was in an inferior class, because of the look of the thing.
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