CHAPTER XLIX
The Duellists Meet
Lord Chiltern arrived, and Phineas was a little nervous as to their meeting. He came back from shooting on the day in question, and was told by the servant that Lord Chiltern was in the house. Phineas went into the billiard-room in his knickerbockers, thinking probably that he might be there, and then into the drawing-room, and at last into the library,—but Lord Chiltern was not to be found. At last he came across Violet.
"Have you seen him?" he asked.
"Yes;—he was with me half an hour since, walking round the gardens."
"And how is he? Come;—tell me something about him."
"I never knew him to be more pleasant. He would give no promise about Saulsby, but he did not say that he would not go."
"Does he know that I am here?"
"Yes;—I told him so. I told him how much pleasure I should have in seeing you two together,—as friends."
"And what did he say?"