"I shall return your visit as early
as if you were a royal personage. I shall love to come."
"Number 13, Grandison Square," said Carrissima. "It is not very far,
and I am quite alone just now. I don't know whether you remember my
father----"
"Very indistinctly," answered Bridget.
"He is away at Church Stretton playing golf."
"Then you are in the same unprotected condition as I am," suggested
Bridget.
"Oh well, I have the advantage of a peculiarly attentive brother.
Lawrence has the firm and unalterable opinion that no woman under forty
is capable of looking after herself. During my father's absence he
generally pays me a visit once every twenty-four hours, either on his
way home from the Temple or after dinner. I shall expect you before
many days," said Carrissima, and Bridget insisted on accompanying her
down to the hall.
CHAPTER IV
BRIDGET AT GRANDISON SQUARE
Carrissima walked back to Grandison Square, feeling not a whit less
jealous than she had set out. There seemed, it is true, something
about Bridget Rosser to which she was scarcely accustomed in her own
personal friends; something difficult to describe.
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