"
"Well, if you must know, she said that you were a man few women could
resist; and--she didn't blame _me_."
"H'm! You call that complimentary? Let's suppose she meant it so. Now
we'll have breakfast, and forget her--unless you'd like her called to go
with us on a shopping expedition I've set my heart on."
"What kind of a shopping expedition?" Annesley wanted to know.
"To buy you all the pretty things you've ever wished for."
The girl laughed. "To do that would cost a fortune!"
"Then we'll spend a fortune. Shall you and I do it ourselves, or would
you like to have the Countess de Santiago's taste?"
"Oh, let us go without her," Annesley exclaimed, "unless you----"
"Rather _not_. I want you to myself. You darling! We'll have a great
day--spending that fortune. The next thing we do--it can wait till
after we're married--is to look for a house in a good neighbourhood,
to rent furnished. But we'll get your swell cousins, Lord and Lady
Annesley-Seton, to help us choose. Perhaps there'll be something near
them."
"Why, they hardly know I exist! I doubt if Lady Annesley-Seton _does_
know," replied the girl.
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