She wore a mournful air; and he perceived at once that she was no
longer clad in a bright scarlet costume, but in one of a dull crimson,
more in keeping with her air of mournfulness. She cut him deliberately
as she passed into the hotel.
He was exceedingly angry; no human being had ever cut him before, and
he flushed with mortification. He walked down to the gardens pondering
the affront; and his anger grew. Then of a sudden it flashed on him
that she had found out Mr. Arthur Courtnay, and that the warning he had
given her had had something to do with that discovery. She had cut him
by way of showing her gratitude in a truly womanly fashion. With the
smile of an angel indulgent to human frailty he forgave her, and thrust
the matter out of his mind.
That night at dinner, or rather at dessert, Lord Crosland informed them
that he was engaged to Claire Wigram; and when they had done
congratulating him, he told them that in a few days he would be leaving
for England with the Wigrams.
"Well," said Sir Tancred, "the season here is coming to an end; and, at
any rate, the weather for the last few days has been too hot to do
these children any good. I think we will move northward, too."
"It will be the break-up of a very pleasant party," said Septimus
Rainer with a sigh, and Dorothy's face fell.
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