Would she like to
come down to Matching?"
"She has some idea of going back to Italy."
"And leaving her lover behind her! Oh, dear, that will be very bad.
She'd much better come to Matching, and then I'd ask the man to come
too. Mr. Maud, isn't he?"
"Gerard Maule."
"Ah, yes; Maule. If it's the kind of thing that ought to be, I'd
manage it in a week. If you get a young man down into a country
house, and there has been anything at all between them, I don't see
how he is to escape. Isn't there some trouble about money?"
"They wouldn't be very rich, Duchess."
"What a blessing for them! But then, perhaps, they'd be very poor."
"They would be rather poor."
"Which is not a blessing. Isn't there some proverb about going safely
in the middle? I'm sure it's true about money,--only perhaps you
ought to be put a little beyond the middle. I don't know why
Plantagenet shouldn't do something for her."
As to this conversation Lady Chiltern said very little to Adelaide,
but she did mention the proposed visit to Matching.
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