"We shall have a delightful day, Miss Leslie," said the lieutenant.
"Oh, charming, isn't it?" said Marian.
"But now to choose a place for dinner, Captain Ewing;--what do you
say?"
"Will you commission me to select? You know I'm very well up in
geometry, and all that?"
"But that won't teach you what sort of a place does for a picnic
dinner;--will it, Mr. Cumming?" And then she shook hands with
Maurice, but did not take any further special notice of him. "We'll
all go together, if you please. The commission is too important to
be left to one." And then Marian rode off, and the lieutenant and
the captain rode with her.
It was open for Maurice to join them if he chose, but he did not
choose. He had come there ever so much earlier than he need have
done, dragging his aunt with him, because Marian had told him that
his services would be specially required by her. And now as soon as
she saw him she went away with the two officers!--went away without
vouchsafing him a word. He made up his mind, there on the spot, that
he would never think of her again--never speak to her otherwise than
he might speak to the most indifferent of mortals.
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