And if you did
n't stay for Gordon, you might have staid for Angela. I never heard of
anything so monstrous as a gentleman rushing away from the object of his
affection, for no particular purpose that any one could discover, the
day after she has accepted him. It was not the day after? Well, it was
too soon, at any rate. Angela could n't in the least tell me what
you had gone for; she said it was for a 'change.' That was a charming
reason! But she was very much ashamed of you--and so was I; and at last
we all sent Captain Lovelock after you to bring you back. You came back
without him? Ah, so much the better; I suppose he is still looking for
you, and, as he is n't very clever, that will occupy him for some time.
We want to occupy him; we don't approve of his being so idle. However,
for my own part, I am very glad you were away. I was a great deal at
Mrs. Vivian's, and I should n't have felt nearly so much at liberty
to go if I had known I should always find you there making love to
Mademoiselle. It would n't have seemed to me discreet,--I know what you
are going to say--that it 's the first time you ever heard of my wishing
to avoid an indiscretion. It 's a taste I have taken up lately,--for the
same reason you went to London, for a 'change.
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