So none could be
too beautiful and costly for his purse. Then Leonore wanted a dog--a
mastiff. The legal practice of the great firm and the politics of the
city nearly stopped till the finest of its kind had been obtained for
her.
Another incriminating fact came to her through Dorothy.
"I had a great surprise to-day," she told Leonore. "One that fills me
with delight, and that will please you."
"What is that?"
"Peter asked me at dinner, if we weren't to have Anneke's house at
Newport for the summer, and when I said 'yes,' he told me that if I
would save a room for him, he would come down Friday nights and stay
over Sunday, right through the summer. He has been a simply impossible
man hitherto to entice into a visit. Ray and I felt like giving three
cheers."
"He seemed glad enough to be invited to visit Grey-Court," thought
Leonore.
But even without all this, Peter carried the answer to the puzzle about
with him in his own person. Leonore could not but feel the difference in
the way he treated, and talked, and looked at her, as compared to all
about her.
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