She _had_ meant Margaret--Margaret whom she loves; but he--who had _he_ meant?
Really it doesn't matter so much after all, this story of Lady Rylton's.

Maurice can go his way and she hers--that was arranged! But, for all that, it _does_ seem rather mean that he should have married her, telling her nothing of this.
"Care! why should I care ?" says she suddenly, Lady Rylton's last words clinging to her brain, in spite of all its swift wanderings during the last sixty seconds.
"Such an admirable indifference would almost lead me to believe that you had been born of good parentage," says Lady Rylton, cold with disappointed revenge.
"I was born of excellent parentage----" Tita is beginning, when the sound of footsteps slowly mounting the stairs of the veranda outside comes to them.
A second later Mrs.Gower shows himself..