A Fair Fraud — page 66: what you’re looking at

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A Fair Fraud 55 friend Mr Naylor mind going in by himself? or shall I send up to the Vicarage for one of the girls? I really don’t know what Ken will say, for he thought Mrs Havering would do so well for his friend; it seems Mr Naylor is very particular, and very easily bored by ladies, and Ken thought Mrs Havering might amuse him as she hunts, and its so lively and pretty. Ken will be dreadfully put out.’ ‘Mr Naylor might take Miss Lane in to dinner?’ suggested Marion. ‘Well, go and ask Kenneth. That was why I didn’t send James—he is so stupid, he always makes some mistake, and, of course, Marion, I don’t want it all blurted out before Mrs Lane and Hetty, Just speak to him quietly,’ So presently Marion found herself trudging towards the lake down the gentle slope of the park, that was now thinly powdered over with light snow. The air was still and cold, but the sky had become rather grey and overcast, and fureboded a change of some kind—either more snow, or possibly a break up of the long frost. But the world was very silent, as it often is in frosty weather, and a long way from the lake Marion could distinguish the cutting noise of the skates over the ice. WOO oO C' Q)