A Fair Fraud — page 32: what you’re looking at

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A Fair Fraud 21 —an old woman, too, I suppose the mother must be! Disgraceful, I call it, and not at all a compliment to ws, I think, arriving here on these concerns, with nothing but what they stand up in.’ ‘But their maid is to come by train, Ken says, with their lugyage—she will be here before they are. Depend upon it, they will bring plenty of clothes. It seems they want to have a few days’ skating in the country before the frost goes. And can't you shoot the rest of the pheasants so as to keep Ken here a little longer ?’ _ © Well, there’s plenty of skating to be had on the lake, certainly, if that’s what they want. But, bless me! you don’t mean to say the old lady skates too? Why, she must be a perfect acrobat !’ ‘Perhaps she isn’t so very old,’ suggested Mrs Drury. ‘Ken says she is charming.’ ‘Old enough, anyhow, to be the mother of a grown-up young woman. How would Ken like to see 4zs mother astride ona bicycle?’ Mrs Drury laughed, and said that would be a different matter altogether, but that she believed ladies of all ages rode these bicycles now. And then she wrote out her telegram quietly, knowing that her husband had had his say and would raise no more objections. Marion was told to take the telegram form - CONIC IOo oO C' Q)