The New Countess
“In three weeks his mood had changed from anger to a vague feeling that perhaps he was in some way to blame, and that he might need to rectify the situation by looking her out.By the time Arthur had composed himself after Miss Braintree’s rather startling visit, had rearranged some vital papers and walked back up to the house, he had begun to feel quite angry with Minnie. The Gatehouse surely was his private place, the equivalent of any gentleman’s den, and a wife did not enter unannounced. The ...privacy of both man and wife in a marriage was important. More, it was most un-English of Minnie – he could think of no truer way of putting it – to have reacted as she did, as though he, her husband, had something to hide, which he most certainly did not. Miss Evelyn Braintree had behaved in a deliberately provocative way, but he had not succumbed to her charms. On the contrary. He deserved consideration for this, not Minnie’s frankly rather shop-girlish and immediate show of suspicion.MoreLess
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