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'Perhaps
she will hardly like to go to the duchess's, as she does not visit her.'
'Oh, but this affair counts for nothing. We go to hear Metzikoff, not to
bow down to the duchess. All the people in town who care for music will
be there, and you who play so divinely must enjoy fine professional
playing.'
'I worship a really great player,' said Lesbia, 'and if I can drag Lady
Kirkbank to the house of the enemy, we will be there.'
On this Mr. Smithson discreetly murmured '_au revoir_,' took up his hat
and cane, and departed, without, in Sir George's parlance, having turned
a hair.
'Refusal number one,' he said to himself, as he went downstairs, with
his leisurely catlike pace, that velvet step by which he had gradually
crept into society. 'We may have to go through refusal number two and
number three; but she means to have me. She is a very clever girl for a
countrybred one; and she knows that it is worth her while to be Lady
Lesbia Smithson.'
This soliloquy may be taken to prove that Horace Smithson knew Lesbia
Haselden better than she knew herself.


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