‘But what do you mean by the steps he is going to take in his establishment generally?’
‘Lord Monmouth thinks he requires change of scene.’
‘Oh! is he going to drag me abroad again?’ exclaimed Lady Monmouth, with great impatience.
‘Why, not exactly,’ said Mr. Rigby, rather demurely.
‘I hope he is not going again to that dreadful castle in Lancashire.’
‘Lord Monmouth was thinking that, as you were tired of Paris, you might
find some of the German Baths agreeable.’
‘Why, there is nothing that Lord Monmouth dislikes so much as a German
bathing-place!’
‘Exactly,’ said Mr. Rigby.
‘Then how capricious in him wanting to go to them?’
‘He does not want to go to them!’
‘What do you mean, Mr. Rigby?’ said Lady Monmouth, in a lower voice, and looking him full in the face with a glance seldom bestowed.