26/27 I told him he could not have you. I shall need you again." "The funny thing," said Mrs.Morres, and the amusement had come back in her voice--"is that Colonel St.Leger won't like your marriage at all. But now--this African marriage--he will talk about it as though you were marrying a man of colour, Agatha, my dear. How his eyebrows will go out!" "To think," said Mary, with a little sigh, "that the novel is unfinished, after all." "A novel is so much more interesting," said Lady Agatha, "when you live it, Mary. |