Enter Bridget

it indoors, although the trees in the parks were in fresh green leaf, and London was looking its brightest and best. Ther

Place, and for her own part, she determined to stay at home until te

tic as ever; a man, you felt certain, who would succeed in m

arrissima, remembering that her

ay afternoon,

had a go

ld Wentworth knows his Paris, a

that he should pay her a visit directly he returned, but now

ng in Charteris S

ought to give Phoebe a look up last night. I went there after dinner. She tells m

rrissima, unable to repress a sigh as she remembered the train

ou wish you hadn't d

" asked Carrissima, per

on the subject. By Jove! according to him she might be the complete adventures

strike you as being i

ris

en away for more than a month. I ha

s!" said Carrissima; and

eks after Christmas, when he had no occupation for his idle hands, he had certainly spent many enjoyable hours at Number 5, Gol

tion" half way would have become more acute, and without any idea of a closer relationship, he mi

isely what Bridget desired; but then again, he reasoned himself into the opinion that she must be entirely innocent

t. "I came here this afternoon to ch

world would she attempt to belittle Bridget if Mark desired to exalt her. On the oth

r to the play; to all sorts of places; she receives him every day in the week, and he buys her presents. On the few occasions when I h

at the colonel admires her. Any man must! All I can say is

r for his own? Because Colonel Faversham was by way of winn

murmured

entioned her name at Phoebe's that evening I was late for dinner you would never have

y do? It is a day after the fair. She has the game in her hands if she

Mark, "whether I sho

y way to make certain of catching her without fath

his evening,

?" asked

still with my hands in my pockets. I suppose surger

e, "you can scarcely dream of going to Gol

Mark. "I shall see ho

to have a

anish the topic. Can't we talk about something more agreeable? I am afraid I have been makin

once or twice every week. He had not seen her face for longer than a month, then only once after two or three months' separation. She came upon him now as a kind of revelation, the more because of her obvious

lans for the future-i

ssima

n to explain his intention to lookout for rooms in t

occasions Mark always administered the anaesthetic. Messeter had more than hinted that he might be able to put some work in Mark's way, and the intention was that he should specialize as an anaesthetist, at the same time waiting for ordinary patients. Carrissima listened with the

way she wished that it were possible to keep him out of Bridget's reach, be

to her bow? Was she holding Colonel Faversham on and off until Mark's return to London? Did she

Carrissima would have been sorry if the world were quite the rabbit warren which,