Chapter 12

⁠​​​‌​​​​​​​‌‌‌‌‌​​‌​‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌​​‌‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​​‌‌‌‌​‌​‌​‌​‌‌‌​​⁠The Harboroughs' and Talbot's invitation to the Manor had been for a fortnight. Of that fortnight fully a week has already elapsed. To the house which comes next in the Harboroughs' autumn programme John Talbot has, by some strange oversight, not been asked. For this reason—to mark her indignation at so flagrant a departure from the code of civilised manners—Betty shows every symptom of an intenti