[The Splendid Folly by Margaret Pedler]@TWC D-Link bookThe Splendid Folly CHAPTER VI 22/22
The man was impossible! It was also very difficult, she found, to remain righteously angry with such an impossible person. If he saw the smile, he gave no indication of it.
Rubbing the window with his hand he peered out. "I think we are just turning in at the Rectory gates," he remarked carelessly. In another minute the motor had throbbed to a standstill and the chauffeur was standing at the open door. "I'm sorry we've been so long coming, sir," he said, touching his hat. "I took a wrong turning--lost me way a bit." Then as Errington and Diana passed into the house, he added thoughtfully, addressing his engine:-- "She's a pretty little bit of skirt and no mistake.
I wonder, now, if we was lost long enough, eh, Billy ?".
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