5/64 She said you told her it had belonged to your mother." "Holy Mother of Truth!" thought I, "pray give your especial care to my cousin Dorothy. She needs it." Sir George thrust at my side with his thumb and continued:-- "Don't deny it, Malcolm. Damme, you are as shy as a boy in this matter. I was thinking only the other day that your course was probably the right one. Doll, I suspect, has a dash of her old father's temper, and she may prove a little troublesome unless we let her think she is having her own way. |