“I have no – chance of – looking for it.”
“I could do that for you.”
“You could? Or rather – would you?”
“That is another thing I will promise you to do.”
“Mama’s father was the Vicar of a small Parish in Hampshire. I know he did not marry them because the Patron of his living was a friend of my grandfather’s, and Mama thought her father might be made to suffer for it. So she and Papa were married, I am sure, at Dover.”
“Why do you think that?”
“Because to escape all the fuss there was about Papa breaking off his engagement they went to France.”
“And was there a fuss?”
“I think so. I am sure there was, for while they were in France Uncle Jarvis went to see them and said that Papa was to stay out of England because of the scandal he had caused – and there was some other reason also.
