She could still pursue him; still write to him;--and at
last, if necessary, force her father to do so. But she must trust
now chiefly to her own correspondence.
"He told me, aunt, the last thing last night that he was going,"
she said.
"Why did you not mention it?"
"I thought he would have told you. I saw him speaking to you. He
had received some telegram about a horse. He's the most flighty man
in the world about such things. I am to write to him before I leave
this to-morrow." Then the Duchess did not believe a word of the
engagement. She felt at any rate certain that if there was an
engagement, Lord Rufford did not mean to keep it.
CHAPTER XIV
The Senator is badly treated
When these great efforts were being made by Arabella Trefoil at
Mistletoe, John Morton was vacillating in an unhappy mood between
London and Bragton. It may be remembered that an offer was made to
him as to the purchase of Chowton Farm. At that time the Mistletoe
party was broken up, and Miss Trefoil was staying with her mother
at the Connop Greens. By the morning post on the next day he
received a note from the Senator in which Mr. Gotobed stated that
business required his presence at Dillsborough and suggested that
he should again become a guest at Bragton for a few days. Morton
was so sick of his own company and so tired of thinking of his own
affairs that he was almost glad to welcome the Senator.
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