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Title: Enter Bridget

Author: Thomas Cobb

Release Date: April 28, 2006 [EBook #18280]

Language: English

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ENTER BRIDGET

BY

THOMAS COBB

AUTHOR OF "PHILLIDA," "THE CHOICE OF THEODORA,"

"THE ANGER OF OLIVIA," ETC.

SECOND EDITION

MILLS & BOON, LIMITED

49 RUPERT STREET

LONDON, W.

Published 1912.

INSCRIBED TO

E. C.

MY BEST OF FRIENDS.

CONTENTS

I LATE FOR DINNER
II MARK EXPLAINS
III BRIDGET
IV BRIDGET AT GRANDISON SQUARE
V COLONEL FAVERSHAM
VI CONCERNING BIRTHDAYS
VII THE EXCURSION
VIII A PROPOSAL
IX MARK RETURNS
X CONFIDENCES
XI MARK REPORTS PROGRESS
XII SYBIL
XIII A WALK ABROAD
XIV THE WOOING O'T
XV MARK MAKES A BEGINNING
XVI BUYING A CARPET--AND AFTER
XVII HASTY WORDS
XVIII HOW IT HAPPENED
XIX AN APPOINTMENT
XX IN SIGHT OF PORT
XXI JIMMY SETS TO WORK
XXII INCRIMINATING HIMSELF
XXIII HAVING IT OUT
XXIV A HOT SCENT
XXV OPEN CONFESSION
XXVI LAWRENCE SUMS IT UP
XXVII "MRS. JIMMY"
XXVIII EXEUNT OMNES

ENTER BRIDGET

CHAPTER I

LATE FOR DINNER

Concerning Bridget there was from the outset considerable difference of
opinion. Mark Driver, for instance, always showed a tendency to
something more than tolerance, and even Carrissima Faversham, in spite
of a manifestly unfavourable bias, strove to hold the balance even. It
was her brother Lawrence who took the most adverse view; insisting that
Miss Rosser was neither more nor less than an adventuress--"a pretty
woman on the make" was his expression, uttered, it is true, before he
had an opportunity of seeing her face.

Her entrance on the scene was heralded by Mark Driver one evening
towards the end of March, when he had accepted an invitation to dine
with his sister and Lawrence in Charteris Street, S.W.

Carrissima's maid found her so exacting that evening, that she might
have b