``Perhaps he didn't appeal to them in the same way''
suggested the Gr
fin judicially.
The Baroness began to feel that she was not getting the
astonishment and sympathy to which her catastrophe entitled
her.
``At any rate,'' she snapped, ``now she can't marry
Wratislav.''
``She couldn't in any case,'' said the Griffin; ``he left
suddenly for abroad last night.''
``For abroad! Where?''
``For Mexico, I believe.''
``Mexico! But what for? Why Mexico?''
``The English have a proverb, `Conscience makes cowboys of
us all.' ''
``I didn't know Wratislav had a conscience.''
``My dear Sophie, he hasn't. It's other people's
consciences that send one abroad in a hurry. Let's go and
eat.''
THE EASTER EGG
It was distinctly hard lines for Lady Barbara, who came of
good fighting stock, and was one of the bravest women of her
generation, that her son should be so undisguisedly a
coward. Whatever good qualities Lester Slaggby may have
possessed, and he was in some respects charming, courage
could certainly never be imputed to him. As a child he had
suffered from childish timidity, as a boy from unboyish
funk, and as a youth he had exchanged unreasoning fears for
others which were more formidable from the fact of having a
carefully-thought-out basis.
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