“ Which is certainly not suggestive of a valetudinarian, ” remarked Lucian, looking hard at the stranger.
They had now come close to the two, and could hear Lord Worthington, as he prepared to enter the carriage, saying, “ Take care of yourself, like a good fellow, won ’ t you? Remember! if it lasts a second over the fifteen minutes, I shall drop five hundred pounds. ”
Hermes placed his arm round the shoulders of the young lord and gave him a playful roll. Then he said with good accent and pronunciation, but with a certain rough quality of voice, and louder than English gentlemen usually speak, “ Your money is as safe as the mint, my boy. ”
Evidently, Alice thought, the stranger was an intimate friend of Lord Worthington. She resolved to be particular in her behavior before him, if intr
