Excerpt from Flight of Faviel It was unworthy of his luck, Mr. Richard Faviel thought, that he should be sitting in Room IV. - or was it Room V.? - of Burlington House, in a tepid splash of sunlight, tete-a-tete with Lady Mallendon. He liked Lady Mallendon, and her sudden simple confidences and her equally sudden shrewd criticisms, all quite characteristic, but mostly about nothing in particular. Only a tete-a-tete with Lady Mallendon was a somewhat less attractive affair than he had contemplated when he pursued her and her niece from the corner of Piccadilly into the headquarters of British Art. It seemed a pity that Miss Judith Mallendon should be looking at the pictures alone. The only consolation Mr. Faviel had was that Lady Mallendon's confidences had only a moment ago taken a most interesting turn. "Don't you think, Mr. Faviel, that Judith has arrived at a marriageable age?" Faviel had thought so on and off, but mostly on, for the last six months, but he contrived to convey an air of having bestowed his best attention upon a sudden poser before he replied. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."