Norbury), and will certainly
take place, between Angela, only daughter of the late John
Norbury, and--Mark Ablett of the Red House." And, coming across
it on his way to the sporting page, Bill would have been
surprised. For he had thought that, if anybody, it was Cayley.
To the girl it was neither. She was often amused by her mother's
ways; sometimes ashamed of them; sometimes distressed by them.
The Mark Ablett affair had seemed to her particularly
distressing, for Mark was so obviously in league with her mother
against her. Other suitors, upon whom her mother had smiled, had
been embarrassed by that championship; Mark appeared to depend on
it as much as on his own attractions; great though he thought
these to be. They went a-wooing together. It was a pleasure to
turn to Cayley, that hopeless ineligible.
But alas! Cayley had misunderstood her. She could not imagine
Cayley in love until she saw it, and tried, too late, to stop it.
That was four days ago. She had not seen him since, and now here
was this letter. She dreaded opening it.
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