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you all about it that night, if it hadn't been for that beastly fire You

know mother said I fully silly--I laid ht to have left London--that tiht here--I ht

have o back to

Thorneytoft, where everybody was talking and thinking things They

would talk, Nevill"

"The fiends! You shouldn't haveThey didn't

understand you How could they? The brutes"

"Me? Oh, I wouldn't have minded that"

Tyson was frankly astonished Apparently she had not a notion that she

had been the subject of any scurrilous reports at Drayton Parva or

elsewhere From the first she had resented their social ostracism (when

she became aware of it) as an insult to him; and now, evidently she had

found the clue to the e of his conduct

Before she could do that, in her own ravely And yet, but for this characteristic little inadvertence, he

would never have known it How much did she know?

She went on a little incoherently; so athered instantly, and wreathed into the sequence of her thought

"Mother said people would talk if I didn't take care She thought Sir

Peter--poor old Sir Peter--do you remember his funny red face, and his

throat--all turkey's wattles?--because he said I was the prettiest woman

in Leicestershire I don't see much harain--now Perhaps--she thought I oughtn't to

have gone about quite so much with Louis"