"I do so hope you'll get the seat,—and win the Derby."
These were her last words to him as she wished him good-night.
CHAPTER X
"Why Not Like Romeo If I Feel Like Romeo?"
"That's nonsense, Miss Cass, and I shall," said Lady Mabel. They were together, on the morning after the little dinner-party described in the last chapter, in a small back sitting-room which was supposed to be Lady Mabel's own, and the servant had just announced the fact that Mr. Tregear was below.
"Then I shall go down too," said Miss Cassewary.
"You'll do nothing of the kind. Will you please to tell me what it is you are afraid of? Do you think that Frank is going to make love to me again?"
"No."
"Or that if I chose that he should I would let you stop me? He is in love with somebody else,—and perhaps I am too. And we are two paupers."