An Affair of Honor
“If she hadn’t known the thought to be a ridiculous one, she might even have suspected Rory of attempting to evade just such a confrontation. To be sure, they both had a number of things to occupy their time. Mr. Wade came to call upon them Saturday afternoon and agreed that invitations to the first assembly at the Castle Inn would be delivered into their hands no later than Monday afternoon.
He stayed no longer than the requisite twenty minutes, of course, but his rival from the Old Ship, Mr. Hicks, was announced by Pavingham before Mr. Wade’s footsteps had faded out of hearing. Rory thought them both quaint little men, if a bit more puffed up in their own esteem than they had any call to be.
“Very true, in these days of relaxed manners, my dear,” observed her grandmother, who had been present during both interviews. “But Mr. Wade—or Captain Wade, as he was known to us then—once held quite an important position here. “’Tis the same position he holds now, of course,”
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