"I was sitting upon his bed," said Letty, "and we were all talking
about you when my Lady mamma came. Are mothers kinder than Lady
mammas?"
"Was she angry?" asked Aurelia.
"Oh! she frightened me," said Fay. "She said we were pert, forward
misses, and we must hold our tongues, for we should be whipped if
we ever said you name, Cousin--Sister Aura, again; and she would
not let us go to wish Brother Amyas good-bye this morning."
Aurelia's heart could not but leap with joy that her tyrant should
have failed in carrying to Bowstead the renunciation of the marriage.
Whether Lady Belamour meant it or not, she had made resistance much
easier by the company of Faith and Hope, if only for a single night.
She gathered from their prattle that their mother, having found that
their talk with their brother was all of the one object of his
thoughts, had carried them off summarily, and had been since driving
about London in search of a school at which to leave them; but they
were too young for Queen's Square, and there was no room at another
house at which Lady Belamour had applied. She would not take them
home, being, of course, afraid of their tongues, and in her perplexity
had been reduced to letting them share Aurelia's captivity at least
for the night.
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