A Fair Fraud — page 63: what you’re looking at

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52 A Fair Fraud she remembered how Miss Lane had inveighed against the objectionable number three. Then she asked a timid question on her own account. ‘Should you object, then, to Miss Lane being left alone with Cousin Kenneth, Aunt Fanny ?’ ‘Certainly I. should. Mrs Lane tells me frankly that she 1s not well off; she has nothing beyond the pension which came to her at her husband’s death, and which expires with her. Our son must marry better than that.’ ‘But surely if he has money himself, Aunt—' ‘My dear, I know what you are going to say! all romantic young girls think a rich man ought to marry a beggar maid, like that King— Coffee—something! But that is all nonsense. Money should marry money. And Mrs Lane is well aware of this—in fact, it is her own ~ Opinion also. Kenneth, of course, is only flirting with Miss Lane—he is a sad flirt, | am afraid, dear boy! But with such a high- principled woman as Mrs Lane to watch over them both, I feel I need have no anxiety that the flirtation will develop into anything serious.’ ‘Aunt Fanny,’ said Marion after a little pause, during which she wrote Azs de Veaxn en Supréme twice over, and had to tear up the card, ‘have you any idea who Mrs Lane is?’ ’Mrs Drury pulled off her spectacles hastily. ‘Bless the girl! who should she be but GOMMGIOO oO C' Q)