A Fair Fraud — page 80: what you’re looking at

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A Fair: Fraud. 69 Mrs Drury was not unreasonably disposed to be very angry with her companion, but before she had time to scold her, her son and Miss Lane came in together. Hester asked for her mother, rather uneasily, Marion fancied. ‘She said she was tired, and went home. Have you seen her, Miss Blake ?’ Marion evaded a direct answer, and mur- mured awkwardly that perhaps Mrs Lane had come in already. Meanwhile Mrs Drury had cornered her son, and was explaining to him in a low voice the situation with regard to the dinner-party. The first words Marion was conscious of were spoken by Captain Drury, and she caught her own name. ‘Certainly not. Don’t bother to send for anybody. Let Marion Blake take Mrs Haver- ing’s place. That is the simplest plan.’ ‘But you say this Mr Naylor is so particular, my dear ?’ ‘Oh, well, he’ll get on quite as well with little Marion as with anybody else—that is to say, he probably won't trouble himself much about her. Edgar Naylor is a confirmed woman-hater, not One woman in a hundred interests him. He might have found something to say to Mrs Havering, but, on the other hand, he very probably might not! Give him to Marion. If he doesn’t talk to her she won’t mind. Naylor COME DOO oO C' Q)