Haldiman explained, in a raised voice to his mother the next morning. “You must take Miss Harvey with you,” Lady Haldiman told him. “I don’t want to be saddled with her all the livelong day. She will want to be trailing through the shops in the village, fingering ribbons and buttons. So very wearing, especially when you have been looking at the same old things forever. I know her sort.” “I don’t want her to be with Peter.” “Flee with Peter? You will be there to see he don’t pull that stunt again.” “Be with him, Mama. I don’t want to throw them together.” “Then take Sara along, and you can entertain Miss Harvey.” “Sara wouldn’t go.” “Know what?” She knew by her son’s impatient frown that she had misheard him. “Buy me a new ear horn, Rufus. I dropped my old one and stepped on it. I am tired of being a nuisance. I cannot imagine why everyone mumbles so.” Even an unwelcome guest could not be abandoned to such crusty hospitality as Lady Haldiman, in her affliction, provided.
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