‘I can generally do anything I have a mind to,’ answered Miss Marjory significantly. ‘You had better not make an enemy of me.’
He still looked hard at her—as if he would read her very soul.
‘And you are a staunch supporter of—of—our host—of Philip Debenham’s?’
‘I am,’ she answered coolly; ‘and I am as firm a friend as I am an enemy. Any cause I take up generally prospers.’
Maud’s health was now being proposed, and all private conversation had suddenly to be suspended; but when Miss Marjory sailed away with the other ladies into the drawing-room, it was with the comfortable assurance that she had made profitable use of her time, and had given Signor Pagliadini a good scare.
Miss Marjory had enjoyed the dinner-party, if nobody else had.
CHAPTER XV.
MAUD’S DECISION.
