"Will he be long away?"
"That we don't know," Marian said slowly. Louise had asked the
question so lightly that Miss Tapp could not be sure there was any real
interest behind it. But Cecile, who had alighted to crank up,
whispered to Louise:
"You know what he's gone away for? No? To get a job! He and father
have disagreed dreadfully."
"Oh! I am so sorry," murmured Louise. She would not ask any further
questions. She was troubled, however, by this information, for
L'Enfant Terrible seemed to have said it significantly. Louise
wondered very much what had caused the quarrel between Lawford and his
father.
She got at the heart of this mystery when she appeared at the lawn fete
to help the Tapp girls and their mother entertain. She was introduced
at that time to the Taffy King. Louise thought him rather a funny
little man, and his excitability vastly amused her.
She caught him staring at her and scowling more than once; so, in her
direct way, she asked him what he meant by it.
"Don't you approve at all of me, Mr.
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