A Fair Fraud — page 33: what you’re looking at

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22 A Fair Fraud out to the servants’ hall, and naturally she read it by the way. ‘Delighted to see you and friends to-morrow.’ So he was coming to-morrow! All the world seened brighter and sweeter at once to Marion at the enchanting thought. For ‘just to see him’ was this foolish child’s only prayer in these days, and she did not realise yet that his coming might be so fraught with disappoint- ment to herself that it might be happier for her were he to stay away. For ‘what the eye doth not see the heart doth not grieve over,’ says an old proverb, and a very wise old proverb it is! It was Marion’s misfortune that she was to see too much—very much more, indeed, than she was at all intended to see. These were the early days of the bicycle ‘boom,’ and the sight of the lady cyclist was still a rare one in country districts, Marion was not quite sure that she did not share her uncle’s old-fashioned prejudices in the matter; it did not seem to her that it was quite a decorous thing for two ladies, especially when one of them was elderly, to arrive at a house as guests mounted on these new-fangled affairs. Never- theless, as Kenneth Drury approved of these ladies, and was to escort them himself, she GOMMGIOO