" She
had rather hoped to find a kindly friend and ally in the still unknown
caller.
And then, as if answering her secret thought, Radmore observed
carelessly:--"It's wrong to prejudice you against Miss Pendarth; I've
known her do most awfully kind things. But she had what the Scotch call
a 'scunner' against me when I was a boy. She's the sort of woman who's
a good friend and a bad enemy."
"I must hope," said his hostess softly, "that she'll be a good friend to
me. At any rate, it was nice of her to come and call almost at once,
wasn't it?"
"You've delightful quarters here," observed Radmore. "The Trellis House
was a very different place to this in my time; I can remember a hideous,
cold and white wallpaper in this room--it looks twice as large as it did
then."
"I found the things I sold made it possible for me to buy almost
everything in The Trellis House. Tappin & Edge say that I got a great
bargain."
"Yes," said Radmore hesitatingly, "I expect you did."
But all the same he felt that his pretty friend had made a mistake, for
he remembered some of Colonel Crofton's furniture as having been very
good. In the bedroom in which he had slept at Fildy Fe Manor there had
been a walnut-wood tallboy of the best Jacobean period.
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