Love & Friendship by Whit Stillman

Author:Whit Stillman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2016-05-17T04:00:00+00:00

Parklands to London

Weeks later, at Parklands, Catherine Vernon put aside a letter she had been studying.

“I despair at learning anything from these letters,” she told her mother. “They look to have been written under maternal supervision.”

“Poor Frederica. Poor, dear Frederica!”

“We must get her back to Churchill.”

“Or Parklands—your father adores his ‘Kentish Nightingale.’”

“To think that, at any moment, she might be brow-beaten into marrying that Martin! We must protect her: not just for her own sake but for her dear, late father’s.”

“But what can we do?”

“We must find the argument that will persuade her mother that it is in her own interest, which is of course her only guide. That will mean going to London; fortunately Charles must have some business or other there to justify such a trip.”

“What a marvellous husband you have, my dear; Charles seems to live to oblige.”

“It is true, I have been lucky—Charles always seems to have some pretext or other for doing just what’s wanted.”

Charles Vernon could then be heard approaching from the hallway. Reaching the DeCourcy mother and daughter, he stopped, his smile tinged with a slight look of apprehension.

“Dearest,” Catherine began, “I believe you have pressing business in London.”

“Oh, yes,” Charles said with a smile, and it was true that he usually had business there of some kind or other.

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