Lady Lothwell acting for the Duchess was very kind to him finding
him another partner as soon as a new dance began--this time her
own daughter, Lady Kathryn.
Even while he had been tangoing with Sara Studleigh he had seen
the girl with the eyelashes, whirling about with someone, and
when he began his dance with Kathryn, he caught a glimpse of her
at the other end of the room. And almost immediately Kathryn spoke
of her.
"I don't know when you will get a dance with Miss Lawless," she
said. "She is obliged to work out mathematical problems on her
programme."
"I have a setter who fixes his eyes on you and waits without
moving until you look at him and then he makes a dart and you're
obliged to pat him," he said. "Perhaps if I go and stand near her
and do that she will take notice of me."
"Take notice of him, the enslaving thing!" thought Kathryn. "She'd
jump--for all her talk about lepers--any girl would. He's TOO nice!
There's something about HIM too."
Robin did not jump. She had no time to do it because one dance
followed another so quickly and some of them were even divided in
two or three pieces. But the thrill of the singing sound of the
violins behind the greenery, the perfume and stately spaces and
thousand candlelights had suddenly been lifted on to another plane
though she had thought they could reach no higher one. Her whole
being was a keen fine awareness.
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