"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 Gr?fin; 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 he
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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