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For a couple of days this was possible, but then came Mrs Nicholas Rawdon, and the subject was perforce opened "It was a bad case," she said, "but it is being settled as quickly and as quietly as possible I believe the nizance to keep the peace, and has disappeared No one will look for hi one another down in any way, and this affair they don't want talked about Being all of theham was very sorry for the little lady, but he said also 'it was a bad precedent, and ought not to be discussed' And Squire Bentley said, 'If English gentlemen would marry American women, they must put up with American women's ways,' and so on None of them think it prudent to approve Mrs Mostyn's course But they won't get off as easy as they think The wo like that? And I'll warrant some husbands are none so easy in their minds, as my Nicholas said, 'Mrs Mostyn had sown seed that would be seen and heard tell of forday' Our Lucy, I suspect, had ot a lot of new, queer notions at college, and I do believe in my heart she set the poor woman up to the business John Thomas, of course, says not a word, but he looks at Lucy in a very proud kind of way; and I'll be bound he has got an object lesson he'll reh he bluffs ot a running-away notion into her head Bless you, dear, they are all for their laws on the subject, and their wives are sher than usual I've been doing it h very little was said in the newspapers about the affair, the notoriety Mostyn dreaded was coh It was the private topic of conversation in every household Men talked it over in all the places where et the very surest and latest story of the poor wife's wrongs, and then compared reports and even discussed the circumstances in their own particular clubs

At the Court, Tyrrel and Ethel tried to forget, and their own interests were so many and so important that they usually succeeded; especially after a few lines fro assured them of Dora's safety and comfort And for many weeks the busy life of the Manor sufficed; there was the hay to cut in the meadow lands, and after it the wheat fields to harvest The stables, the kennels, the fararden kept Tyrrel constantly busy And to these duties were added the social ones, the dining and dancing and entertaining, the horse racing, the regattas, and the enthusiasenders