. ‘I will not, if you will assure me that an imbecile is a better marriage prospect than a starving pig. ’ ‘Sport!’ grumbled her betrothed, but he accompanied them across the ballroom all the same. The expression, however, which would chiefly have interested a beholder, was that of settled and profound melancholy. With me behaving as if everything was infinitely matter-of-fact, what could he do? And just then Heaven sent old Manningtree—I didn’t tell you before of the fortunate intervention of Manningtree, did I? He was looking quite infernally distinguished, with a wide crimson ribbon across him—what IS a wide crimson ribbon? Some sort of knight, I suppose. It came with an extreme effect of re-discovery, a remarkable novelty. I ——” He stopped short. ‘Before she can think of marriage, Melusine must prove her identity. His smile faded. ’ Melusine bit her lip on a sharp retort. "But we must be getting along if we are to lunch in the tower of the water-clock. Won’t you come and have some tea with me? There is a new place in Bond Street,” he hastened to say, “where everything is very well done, and they give us music, if that is any attraction to you.
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