A Struggle for a Ring — page 337: what you’re looking at

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“DO YOU LOVE ME?” 333 the button on the glove for him, but there was something in Ailie’s manner, in the determined air with which she took possession of it, that forbade all interference. No one had the courage to go to her and say: } ‘‘T will do that instead of you.” Lord Carsdale saw it, but said nothing. When it was neatly stitched Ailie brought it back to him; she never even raised her eyes to his as she gave it to him, so that any half-formed suspicion in the mind of any one present soon died away—she had done it to save them trouble, they thought. But in Ailie’s mind there was a sense of quiet satisfaction—she had mended her husband's glove and prevented her rival from doing it. ‘Then Lord Cars- dale went off for his gallop, but more than once he looked at that glove with thoughtful eyes. The same little incident dwelt in Lady Ethel’s mind, and disquieted her, small as it was. She fancied that Lord Carsdale would think she had not been so quickly anxious tc serve him as his mother’s companion; so that when he returned from his drive, she was there to welcome him. She talked to him more kindly than she had done for some days, and Ailie saw it all. She saw that her hus- band at first almost seemed to struggle against the charm and fascination that the young heiress evidently had for him, then that he yielded to it; and they spent the even- ing over some books and photographs. While Ailie watched with a jealous heart, she showed no signs of it. Once or twice, when Lady Waldrove sent her with different messages to her son or Lady Ethel, she de- livered them with a smiling face, and in her eyes no shadow of discontent lay. She said to herself that it was quite certain that Patient Griselda never looked cross or impatient—that if she was to win her husband's heart at (E(0) ¢ Eomichoo