He had paid scant attention to the girl, even declining to introduce her to his aunt. And he had given Lady Adeline free rein with the seating, whichfollowing precedent as closely as an informal gathering might allow-placed Miss Ware at the center of the table, practically out of hearing. That Sidley should chafe at the fact was something Vaughn need not know. Each time she turned to Dicky Poole, on her right, she turned toward Sidley’s end of the table. Thus he caught all of her smiles for sunny Richard. There appeared to be too many smiles. And Dicky’s manner this evening was much too raffish, out of keeping for the steady country squire he had become. “Lord Sidley,” Mrs. Harvey simpered, drawing his attention, “you have a most hospitable dining chamber here” “I thank you, ma’am. I am surprised, as we rarely dine in it. ‘Tis rather cavernous for two” “No doubt that will change, my lord, when you entertain more,” Lady Katherine suggested. “If I do, dear lady, I hope you will often be in the company.”
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