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'Somebody
is wanted, and nobody can know more of the service than papa does.
But as the other man is a lord I suppose papa must give way. Does
he say anything about mamma, Nora?'
'You had better read the letter yourself,' said Trevelyan, who was
desirous that his wife should know of the threatened visit.
'No, Louis, I shall not do that. You must not blow hot and cold
too. Till the other day I should have thought that Colonel Osborne's
letters were as innocent as an old newspaper. As you have supposed
them to be poisoned I will have nothing to do with them.'
This speech made him very angry. It seemed that his wife, who
had yielded to him, was determined to take out the value of her
submission in the most disagreeable words which she could utter.
Nora now closed the letter and handed it back to her brother-in-law.
He laid it down on the table beside him, and sat for a while with
his eyes fixed upon his book. At last he spoke again. 'Colonel
Osborne says that he will call tomorrow at luncheon time.


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