Cousin Kate
“'I'm not a green girl, or a romp, and I am very well able to look after myself. And if she thought Mr Philip Broome was in the petticoat line she must be a great goose-cap! Pray set her anxious mind at rest, dear ma'am! He shows no disposition to flirt with me!''Oh, tut-tut!' said Lady Broome. 'Don't pull caps with me, you foolish child! You are not so very old, you know, and even though you are neither a green girl nor a romp, you are not yet as much up to snuff as you think you are. A pretty ...thing it would be if I didn't look after you! There, give me a kiss to show me that I'm forgiven!'Melting, Kate embraced her warmly. 'As though there were anything to forgive!' she said, not without difficulty, for the words stuck in her throat.The entrance into the hall of Pennymore, bearing the post-bag, relieved her embarrassment. Lady Broome took it from him; and, with a kindly smile, told Kate to run upstairs to put off her hat. A nuncheon, she said, had been set out in the Blue saloon; and, unless Kate wished to wound the cook's sensibilities, she would partake of it, because he had baked a Savoy Cake for her especial delectation.Kate did go upstairs to remove her hat; but when she came out of her bedchamber she did not immediately go to the Blue saloon, but to her aunt's drawing-room instead, where she found Lady Broome at her writing-table, already busy with her correspondence.MoreLess
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