Book: The Making of a Marchioness
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I am almost ashamed to answer,' she said. 'As I have said before, EmilyFox-Seton has become the lodestar of my existence. I cannot live withouther. She has walked over to Maundell to make sure that we do not have adinner-party without fish to-night.''She has _walked_ over to Maundell,' said Lord Walderhurst--'afteryesterday?''There was not a pair of wheels left in the stable,' answered LadyMaria. 'It is disgraceful, of course, but she is a splendid walker, andshe said she was not too tired to do it. It is the kind of thing sheought to be given the Victoria Cross for--saving one from a dinner-partywithout fish.'The Marquis of Walderhurst took up the cord of his monocle and fixed theglass rigidly in his eye.'It is not only four miles to Maundell,' he remarked, staring at thetable-cloth, not at Lady Maria, 'but it is four miles back. book-quote
