Chapter 53

"You knew that I was at Chillingham Park, it appears?" she observed, with a pretty air of pique. "Yes," said I, soothed by her glance of fond reproach; "Sir Nigel's letter told me so." "Yet you never came even once to visit us, and I longed so much to see you, for I had a good deal to gossip about concerning our residence at Calderwood." "But the earl omitted to leave a card, and your mamma never wrote; and then the rules of society!" I urged, still harping on my grievance. "The rules of fiddlesticks! When did lov…