CHAPTER XLI.
A new and elegant dress had been provided by Lady Anne for the second day, but it was of less costly material, and, by the same rule, considerably slighter; so that Fanchette suggested the idea of substituting a slip to make it equally warm, as the weather had set in cold and boisterous.
"There is no occasion at all," said Lady Anne, "for any such thing; the rooms were so tremendously hot as to occasion many persons to faint, and the lighter one's clothing, the better. I shall not dress as close, in any respect, as I did yesterday."
With some degree of alarm Lady Anne remarked that the duchess's carriage was not sent for her; she, therefore, told Fanchette to order horses to her own chariot, remembering that her own purse was, at the moment, well lined, and that her receipts, the day before, had been enormous. "Surely," said she, "I may take two or three pair of horses, and the money cannot be missed." For a moment she felt the pangs of suspicion cross her mind, as to the integrity of Lady Penrhyn, who had repeatedly wished the fair had been got up for the benefit of her friends, the Poles, and
