While I was with her Aunt
Lil came in, looking very bright and handsome.
She was "so sorry" for Lisa, and not at all sorry for me (how little she
guessed!); and before taking me away with her, promised to come back
after it was settled about the car, to see whether Lisa were well enough
by that time for the shopping expedition.
The automobile really was a "magnificent animal," as Aunt Lil said, and
it took her just two minutes, after examining it from bonnet to
tool-boxes, to make up her mind that she could not be happy without it.
It was sixty horsepower, and of a world-renowned make; but that was a
detail. _Any_ car could be powerful and well made; every car should be,
or you would not pay for it; but she had never seen one before with such
heavenly little arrangements for luggage and lunch; while as for the
gold toilet things, in a pale grey suede case, they were beyond words,
and she must have them--the motor also, of course, since it went with
them.
So that was decided; and she and I drove back to the hotel, while the
two men went to the Automobile Club, of which Lord Bob was an honorary
member.
If possible, all formalities were to be got through with the Rajah's
agent and the car paid for.
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