4/34 What would Garvington say ?" "Oh, curse Garvington!" "Curse the whole family by all means," retorted Miss Greeby coolly. You always were uxorious." "Perhaps," said Pine gloomily, "I'm a fool where Agnes is concerned." Miss Greeby quite agreed with this statement, but did not think it worth while to indorse so obvious a remark. She sat down in her turn, and taking Lambert's cigarette case, which she had retained by accident, out of her pocket, she prepared to smoke. The two were entirely alone in the fairy dell, and the trees which girdled it were glorious with vivid autumnal tints. A gentle breeze sighing through the wood, shook down yew, crisp leaves on the woman's head, so that she looked like Danae in a shower of gold. |