36/40 I can't imagine how we shall get on, now that he is my guardian. I shall put him in a temper twenty times a day." "Ah, but the satisfactory thing now is that you will have to put up with my remarks. I have a legal right now to say what I like." "H'm," said Helena, demurring, "if there are legal rights nowadays." "There, Mrs.Friend--you hear ?" said Lord Buntingford, toying with his cigarette, in the depths of a big chair, and watching his ward with eyes of evident enjoyment. "You've got a Bolshevist to look after--a real anarchist. I'm sorry for you." "That's another of his peculiarities!" said the girl coolly, "queering the pitch before one begins. |