I wished she was not going; there seemed something degrading about the arrangement.
I had not let myself think of this visit. And now it would be the day but one after to-morrow!
A strange restlessness and excitement took possession of me. I could not sleep.
It was a raw, foggy morning when we all left Myrlton. The Duke accompanied us to London, and we were a merry party in the train, in spite of eight of us playing bridge.
Augustus told me he had business in town, and would stay the night and over Sunday, arriving at Dane Mount by the four-o'clock train on Monday.
"If you leave home at three, in the motor," he said, "we shall get there exactly at the same time."
And so I returned to Ledstone alone.
XIII
The fog was white round the windows as I came down to my solitary breakfast on the 4th. My heart sank. What if it should be too thick for me to start? I could not bear to think of the disappointment that would be.
I forced myself to practise for an hour after breakfast. Then I wrote a long letter to the Marquis de Rochermont. Then I looked again at my watch and again at the fog. I should start at half-past two, to give plenty of time, as we should certainly have to go slowly.