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When Miss Lestrange received the announcement of her brother's engagement she replied by return of post, congratulating him on his prospective happiness. She called it prospective, but she allowed that it was happiness. She offered to give up her residence at Mallows, Horace's place in the country, and suggested that perhaps she could take a villa by the seaside.
"This," she wrote, "would be very suitable for Leslie as well. " She took entirely for granted that she should keep the boy. Then she said to herself: "Edith Walton! What extraordinary people Horace picks up! One has never heard of her! There was a Lady Walton I remember meeting at Bournemouth; her husband probably got knighted for patent biscuits, or some vulgar charity; the Lindleys knew her. I will call on the Lindleys."