I expect that I shall
spend four or five months every year on the estate."
"Till you settle down for good?"
"Yes, till I settle down for good," he laughed. "I suppose it will
have to be someday."
"Then you don't think of passing much time in London, Mallett?"
"No, indeed. Fortunately my father sold his town house three years
ago. He did not care about going up, and of course it was of no use
to me. I have never had any opportunities for society, and my
present idea is that it would bore me horribly. But I'll dare say
that I shall be there for a month or so in the season.
"Of course, there is my club to go to, and plenty of men one knows;
but even if I had a longing for society, I know no one in what are
termed fashionable circles, and so should be outside what is called
the world."
"Oh, you would soon get over that, Major Mallett. Why, Lady
Greendale would introduce you everywhere."
"It is not likely I shall trouble her to do that," Mallett
answered.
Frank had told George Lechmere that, as soon as they arrived, he
would be at liberty to go off at once to his father and mother.
"Stay as long as you like," he said.
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