The things we do!

There was no need to recall that now; but the Colonel's
wrath against his nephew exploded in conversation with me, who was the
confidant of father and son in this business. Ever since that luckless
day when Barnes thought proper to--to give a wrong address for Lady Kew,
Thomas Newcome's anger had been growing. He smothered it yet for a while,
sent a letter to Lady Anne Newcome, briefly congratulating her on the
choice which he had heard Miss Newcome had made; and in acknowledgment of
Madame de Florac's more sentimental epistle he wrote a reply which has
not been preserved, but in which he bade her rebuke Miss Newcome for not
having answered him when he wrote to her, and not having acquainted her
old uncle with her projected union.
To this message, Ethel wrote back a brief, hurried reply; it said:--
"I saw Madame de Florac last night at her daughter's reception, and she
gave me my dear uncle's messages. Yes, the news is true which you have
heard from Madame de Florac, and in Bryanstone Square.


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