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Then it cae that certain reflections had been

hter's conduct Mrs Nevill Tyson was said to be ood use of her liberty No na, but she knew perfectly hat had given rise to these

ridiculous reports It was the conspicuous attention which Sir Peter had

insisted on paying Mrs Nevill Tyson Not that there was anything to be

objected to in an old gentle (and

remarkably pretty) married woman No doubt Sir Peter had been very

indiscreet in his expression of it What with calling on her in private

and paying her the most barefaced compliments in public, he had made her

the talk of the county Mrs Wilcox went further: she was firmly

convinced that Sir Peter had fallen a hopeless victireat deal of gratification fro compromised by the old

fellow's attentions, it was another matter

That anybody else could have compromised her by his attentions did not

once occur to Mrs Wilcox By its nificent unlikelihood, the idea that

Sir Peter Morley, MP, was fascinated by her daughter extinguished every

other So possessed was Mrs Wilcox by the idea of Sir Peter that she had

never thought of Stanistreet In any case Stanistreet was the last person

she would have thought of He came and ithout her notice, a

fanificant, fact of her daily life

Of course Molly was a desperate little flirt; but it was absurd that her

flirtations should be made responsible for "this temporary separation"

(That was the mild phrase by which Mrs Wilcox described Tyson's