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46 A Fair Fraud Miss Lane’s reply was inaudible. ‘Yes, I daresay it is a bit dull for her, but she is a good little thing, and she is not really neglected. My mother is very fond of her.’ ‘And you, Captain Drury? I suppose you also are fond of her?’ Marion was looking down into her plate— her colour rose and her heart beat, and she strained every nerve to hear the answer to that question, but Mrs Lane was talking rather loud, and she only caught a part of it; besides which Captain Drury lowered his voice, and she saw him look fixedly into Hester's downbent face. ‘Quite a different thing,’ she heard him say, and ‘ You of all people ought to understand me!’ And Marion experienced a new sensation— a sort of sick chill that went through her like the cold blade of a knife. One can hear and see too much sometimes for one’s own happiness. The next words she heard him say reverted again to Miss Lane’s good nature. ‘You have the kindest heart in the world, and that is why you thought of her.’ Marion supposed this was true, and told herself that she ought to feel more grateful than she did for Miss Lane’s kindly inter- vention on her behalf. Yet, after dinner, a sort of revelation came GOMMGIOO 4 (G' O)