A Fair Fraud — page 132: what you’re looking at

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A Fair Fraud 121 tumblers out of their wrappings, and Mrs Lane, at the other end of the table, was engaged in the concoction of a salad—an art in which she declared herself to be unrivalled—she suddenly found Hester Lane by her side, and was surprised to hear a hurried whisper from her. ‘Miss Blake, will you do me a great kind- ness to-day? Hush! don’t look round; say something about the lunch.’ Then aloud, ‘Have you come across any forks, Miss Blake? I can’t find any.’ ‘They are in the other hamper,’ replied Marion. Then she lowered her voice. ‘ What do you want me to do?’ ‘Do not allow Captain Drury to be left alone with me. Stay by me yourself, I entreat you.’ Marion looked up, and the girls’ eyes met. . ‘You don’t understand me, I daresay,’ went on Hester, hurriedly and nervously ; ‘but if you will just trust me!’ ‘T understand you perfectly,’ replied Marion, quietly; and then after a slight pause she added, ‘and | honour you.’ Hester flushed. ‘Then the lawyer told her!’ she thought; ‘for she knows.’ Aloud she said, ‘You will help me, then—to do right ?’ ‘T will help you in every way, Miss Lane.’ GOMMGIOO <S (GO) uu