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But Archie did not share her feelings. It had not been pleasant for him
to see Daisy ogled and admired by men he wanted to knock down, nor had
he quite liked the escapade at Monte Carlo, for, aside from the fear
lest the fraud should be discovered, there was always before him a dread
of what his Uncle John and the Lady Jane would say, should the affair
ever reach their ears, as it might, for Lord Hardy was not very
discreet, and was sure to tell of it sometime.
As to the playing, could he have had his choice he would far rather have
played himself than to stand by and see Daisy do it. But his vow to his
father could not be broken, and so he was tolerably content, especially
as the result was so far beyond his expectations. Fifteen hundred pounds
was the sum total of the gains, and Daisy, who held the purse and
managed everything, played the lady of Stoneleigh to perfection, and
made enemies of all her former friends, her mother included, and was
only stopped in her career of folly by the birth of her baby, who was
not at all welcome to the childish mother.


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