"With great pleasure," answered the duke, and, after shaking hands rather cordially, he himself conducted me into the hall, and called loudly to the porter to attend and open the door for me.
[CHAPTER XXVII]
Worcester came to town on the following morning, and all the duchess could say or do Worcester insisted on passing the whole of every day with me.
"My lord," Will Haught would say through the keyhole of our bed-room, "my lord, the duchess desired me to tell you that she has a great deal of business to settle with you to-day about, in short, about all manner of things, my lord."
"Very well, that is enough, Will," his lordship would answer.
In another hour this torment would knock again.
"My lord Her Grace looked rather displeased this morning. The duchess was almost in a passion."
"You be d——d! go along!" was the elegant reply.