Let me have it.'
'Your father told me you might have letter from Miss Sefton, and there
is none from her,' said Lady Merrifield, with a somewhat perplexed air.
'I may have letters from whom I choose.'
'My dear, that is not the custom in general with girls of your age, and
I know your father would not wish it. Tell me, is there any one you
have reason to expect to hear from?'
Dolores had an instinct that all the Mohuns were set against the person
she was thinking of, but she had an answer ready, true, but which would
serve her purpose.
'There was a person, Herr Muhlwausser, that father ordered some
scientific plates from--of microscopic zoophytes. He said he did not
know whether anything would come of it, but, in case it should, he gave
my address, and left me a cheque to pay him with. I have it in my desk
upstairs.'
'Very well, my dear,' said Lady Merrifield, 'you shall have the letter
when it comes.'
'The men are come, my lady, to put up the tables. Miss Mohun says will
you come down?' came the information at that moment, sweeping away Aunt
Lilias and everybody else into the whirl of preparation; while Dolores
remained, feeling absolutely certain that a letter was being withheld
from her, and she stood on the garden steps burning with hot
indignation, when Mysie, armed with the key of the linen-press, flashed
past her breathlessly, exclaiming--
'Aren't you coming down, Dolly? 'Tis such fun! I'm come for some
table-cloths.
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