He was so good-looking and obviously well-educated and it seemed extraordinary if he lived so near and was a McCarron that he should not be invited to the dinner.
She was determined to find out sooner or later the reason for his absence, but as it might entail explaining how she had got to know him in the first place, she knew that she would have to await her opportunity and not evoke uncomfortable questions.
‘I suppose it was wrong of me to be alone with him in the woods,’ she thought, ‘but it did not seem so and anyway nobody has taken any trouble to entertain me.’
She supposed that the Marquis was still angry with her and, when he had not appeared, she learned from some casual remark that he had gone to join the fishers on the river. Neither was there any sign of the Duke.
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