“To the malgamite works,” replied Mrs. Vansittart, with significance. And Mr. Wade made no comment. Mrs. Vansittart spoke first.
“I asked Major White,” she said, “to lunch with us to-day, but he was pledged, it appeared, to meet Lord Ferriby and his daughter, and see them installed at their hotel.”
“Ah!” said Mr. Wade.
Mrs. Vansittart, who in truth seemed to find the banker rather heavy, allowed some moments to elapse before she again spoke.
“Major White,” she then observed, “does not accompany Lord Ferriby to the malgamite works.”
“Major White,” replied Marguerite, demurely, “has other fish to fry.”
CHAPTER XXV. CLEARING THE AIR
“It is as difficult to be entirely bad as it is to be
entirely good.”