The manner of Mrs. Cricklander's dismissal of John Derringham had left
him unhampered by any consideration for her feelings.
And when she read the announcement in the _New York Herald_ the day
after the wedding, she burned with furious rage.
So this was the meaning of everything all along! It had not been Cora
Lutworth or his political preoccupations, or anything but simply the
odious fact that he had been in love with somebody else! This wretched
English girl had taken him from her--a creature of whose existence she
had never even heard!
And the world would know of his marriage before her own news had been
made public! The gall of the whole thing was hardly to be borne!
She felt that, had she been aware that John Derringham's affections were
really given elsewhere, nothing would have induced her to break off the
engagement! Mr. Hanbury-Green was all very well, and was being a most
exceptional lover, only this hateful humiliation and blow to her
self-love mattered more than any mere man!
But of such things the married two recked not at all. Their springtime
of bliss had come.
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