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HIS GRACE. 203 tions; so she sent for me. Perhaps you didn’t trace any connection between cause and effect there.” I confessed that I had failed to do so, and Nora went on: “So did I until the scheme was made too apparent to mislead an infant. The duke was supposed to have been more or less captivated by my charms down in the country—such a thing wasn’t impossible, although, as you know, it didn’t actually occur—and it was hoped that my sudden appearance in London would produce a certain effect upon him. The queer part of the busi- ness is that, instead of having produced that effect up- on him, it has produced a rather startling effect upon somebody else. Naturally he has talked and danced a good deal with me—we were always good friends, you know—and the consequence has been that his flirtation with Miss St. George has become a serious love-affair. It was serious on his side from the first, I suppose, and now it isseriouson hers. If, as you say, and as every- body says, he is upon the brink of ruin, his friends ought to do all they can to prevent him from making ruin more ruinous than there is any need for it to be by sharing it with Miss St. George. Don’t you think so?” : “Upon my word, I don’t know,’ I replied rather snappishly. ‘ Hurstbourne isn’t the only person in the world who interests. me, and, as I told you before, I have great confidence in Miss St. George’s distaste for heroic sacrifices. I may be wrong; but what strikes me most forcibly in all this is that I have some little right to resent your having been made a cat’s-paw of. Do you yourself feel no sort of resentment, may I ask?” “That isn’t the question,” said Nora. ‘ Well, since GEomicboo cS (EC) m