They were engaged
for a fixed hour, like the American imitator and the Patagonian
contralto. Mrs. Vesey had been the first to say the girl was awfully
original, but that became the general view.
Gwendolen Vesey had with her mother one of the few quarrels in which
Lady Maresfield had really stood up to such an antagonist (the elder
woman had to recognise in general in whose veins it was that the
blood of the Manglers flowed) on account of this very circumstance of
her attaching more importance to Miss Tramore's originality ("Her
originality be hanged!" her ladyship had gone so far as
unintelligently to exclaim) than to the prospects of the unfortunate
Guy. Mrs. Vesey actually lost sight of these pressing problems in
her admiration of the way the mother and the daughter, or rather the
daughter and the mother (it was slightly confusing) "drew." It was
Lady Maresfield's version of the case that the brazen girl (she was
shockingly coarse) had treated poor Guy abominably. At any rate it
was made known, just after Easter, that Miss Tramore was to be
married to Captain Jay. The marriage was not to take place till the
summer; but Rose felt that before this the field would practically be
won.
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