It mattered not
to her who was present. Had she been called on to make one at a
synod of the clergy of the island, she would have flirted with the
bishop before all his priests. And there have been bishops in the
colony who would not have gainsayed her!
But Maurice Cumming did not rightly calculate all this; nor indeed
did Miss Jack do so as thoroughly as she should have done, for Miss
Jack knew more about such matters than did poor Maurice. "If you
like Marion, why don't you marry her?"
Miss Jack had once said to him; and this coming from Miss Jack, who
was made of money, was a great deal.
"She wouldn't have me," Maurice had answered.
"That's more than you know or I either," was Miss Jack's reply. "But
if you like to try, I'll help you."
With reference to this, Maurice as he left Miss Jack's residence on
his return to Mount Pleasant, had declared that Marian Leslie was not
worth an honest man's love.
"Psha!" Miss Jack replied; "Marian will do like other girls. When
you marry a wife I suppose you mean to be master?"
"At any rate I shan't marry her," said Maurice.
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