“I wish I could bet!” said Emmeline. “I'd lay fifty to one that in less than a week Scrope will own his mistake, and ask my pardon!”
“I'll back you!55 said Sir Bridgnorth, looking at Scrope.
“Taken!” rejoined that person.
“And now let us go up-stairs,” said Lady Thicknesse.
“Not to the drawing-room, dear aunt,” rejoined Captain Danvers.
“Why not there?” inquired her ladyship, surprised.
“Because we should interrupt a very tender interview,” said the captain. “Lord Courland and Mrs. Calverley are in the drawing-room, dear aunt.”
“I should think the affair must be settled by this time,” observed Scrope.
“Give them another quarter of an hour,” said the captain.
The proposition was unanimously agreed to.