There might of course be an emergency in which he must do it.
She might declare that she loved some one else and she might marry
that other person. In that event he saw no other alternative but,--
as he expressed it to himself,--"to run a mucker." Whether the
"mucker" should be run against Mary, or against the fortunate
lover, or against himself, he did not at present resolve.
But he did resolve as he reached his own hall door that he would
make one more passionate appeal to Mary herself before she started
for Cheltenham, and that he would not make it out on a public path,
or in the Masters' family parlour before all the Masters' family;--
but that he would have her secluded, by herself, so that he might
speak out all that was in him, to the best of his ability.
CHAPTER XX
There are Convenances
Before the Monday came the party to Rufford Hall had become quite a
settled thing and had been very much discussed. On the Saturday the
Senator had been driven to the meet, a distance of about ten miles,
on purpose that he might see Lord Rufford and explain his views
about Goarly. Lord Rufford had bowed and stared, and laughed, and
had then told the Senator that he thought he would "find himself in
the wrong box." "That's quite possible, my Lord. I guess, it won't
be the first time I've been in the wrong box, my Lord.
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