CHAPTER TWOIn fact Mrs. Winston need not have troubled herself so much about Mr. de Burge, for he did not reappear at the hotel during the rest of the time that they were there.
Every evening Madelina watched out for him and every evening she was painfully disappointed.
It is, however, in the nature of sudden afflictions of the heart that the image of the beloved fades.
By the time that they had moved into their rented house in Wigmore Street, Madelina had to admit to herself that she could not recall the precise set of Mr. Oliver de Burge’s features.
It was Beth who eventually informed her that Mr. de Burge had gone to Deauville for the end of the Season, the movements of visitors to The Langham being common gossip below stairs.
Madelina had become quite fond of Beth. Seeing this and
