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The Duchess did tell the Duke the whole story about Lord Rufford and Arabella that night -- as to which it may be said that she also was false. But according to her conscience there were two ways of telling such a secret. As a matter of course she told her husband everything. That idle placid dinner-loving man was in truth consulted about each detail of the house and family; -- but the secret was told to him with injunctions that he was to say nothing about it to anyone for twenty-four hours. After that the Duchess was of opinion that he should speak to Lord Rufford. "What could I say to him? " asked the Duke. "I'm not her father."
"But your brother is so indifferent."