25/38 It really isn't your place to make difficulties like this. What is this young lady to you that you should presume to consider yourself her guardian ?" "She is a boarding-house acquaintance," Tavernake confessed, "nothing more." "Then why did you tell me, only a moment ago, that she was your sister ?" Mrs.Gardner demanded. Lord Clumber is quite willing to allow the pictures to remain, and I may tell you that they are insured for over sixty thousand pounds. There is no finer dancing room than this in all London." Her eyes swept around it carelessly. I prefer to continue our discussion." "The dining-room," he went on, "is almost as large. |