"Georgie"
beginning to. "Where is the Goddess Girl?"
He rose with dignity. "She's in the Midlands—staying a few weeks with some beastly relations."
"Oh!"—I saw more plainly still.
"She's coming back in a fortnight, though—"
"Ah!"
"Why doesn't that ass Muggeridge go back to town?" cried he with his hat in his hand.
"He will," I murmured reassuringly. And Georgie went home again.
"If Muggeridge has drawn those two together I have brought him here to excellent purpose," I said to Drusilla, with less hope in my heart than in my words.
But to my surprise she only sighed.
"I don't think any ordinary girl will ever make poor Georgie happy, "murmured she.
"I don't think Anne is exactly ordinary," I answered thoughtfully. And there the discussion ended.
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