A Fair Fraud — page 130: what you’re looking at

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A Fair Fraud 119. Drury. Young things are all the better for a little pleasure, and Hetty would enjoy having Miss Blake with us so much. I can chaperone them both, you know.’ Mrs Drury thought a moment. It was true that Marion would be thus thrown more into Mr Naylor’s society, and that apparently was what her husband desired. The girl was to be given her chances, he had said, faint as they were, and futile as they might prove in the end. _ Very well, Marion, you may‘go then,’ said her aunt. ‘ Ring the bell now that I may give the necessary orders,’ Mrs Lane skipped like a little girl, and clapped her hands with delight. Marion, however, over whose pleasure she thus ex- cited herself, took it very quietly indeed. A sudden impulse, for which she could scarcely account, had induced her to ask to be included in the party, and when an hour later she found herself driving away from the house in the wagonette, with Mrs Lane and her daughter opposite to her, and the luncheon baskets piled up beside her, Marion asked her- self why on earth she had wanted to come? and she could find no answer to the question save the very unsatisfactory one that she sus- pected Mrs Lane of some secret object, and that she had felt impelled by an instinctive GOMMGIOO <S (GO) uu