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"If it weren't for for some of the people here, I'd never come inside the doors. It's a rotten way of spending one's time. You play, I suppose?" "Oh, yes, I play," Norgate admitted, "but I rather agree with you. How wonderfully well Mrs. Benedek is looking, isn't she!" Baring withdrew his admiring eyes from her vicinity. "Prettiest and smartest woman in London," he declared.
Anyway, we can't go on deck." "But I insist on being told what is the matter." The American knew little of ships, but he knew a great deal about mines, and, in a mine, if an accident happens, the man in charge cannot desert his post to give information to those who are anxious for it. So he replied laconically: "Guess the captain will tell us all about it after a while, Miss Baring." "Que diable!
And she wondered now how he had managed, without stripping himself, without baring the intimate, sacred experiences of his own soul, to convey to them, so nobly, the change which had taken place in him.... He began by referring to the hope with which he had come to St. John's, and the gradual realization that the church was a failure a dismal failure when compared to the high ideal of her Master.
Simply moved by the woman's instinct that cannot err, she went straight to him, and so into his arms, clinging to him with a little sobbing laugh, and not speaking at all, because there were no words that could express what she yet found it so sublimely easy to tell him. Baring did not speak either, but he had a different reason for his silence.
Next morning there was a panic in Wall Street, which was arrested, however, by the intelligence from London that, although Government four-per-cents had fallen to 86, they were steady at that figure, and that the Rothschilds and Baring Brothers were buying them in largely.
"It is an affair of duty," she admitted, "but it is certainly with a rival that I must dine." He moved a little nearer to her on the lounge. "Tell me on your honour," he said, "that you are not dining with Baring, and I will forgive!" For a moment she seemed as though she were summoning all her courage to tell the lie which he half expected. Instead she changed her mind.
Now, what must Richard do but uproot the creepers and pull down the verandah, thus baring the walls to the fierce summer heat; plaster over the brick; and, more outlandish still, add a top storey.
"I really don't see why." "Well, you know, we doctors become very alert about signs and symptoms. And you let drop one or two words which made me fear that possibly your husband might be worse than you supposed." "Doctor Baring Hartley is in charge of the case." "Well, but he isn't here!" "He's coming here to-morrow." "I understood he was waiting for you at Assouan.
To remain inactive as an envoy was bad enough; to stay on unaccredited seemed impossible. He determined to take advantage of a hint dropped by his friend Baring that the British Ministry, while declining mediation, was not unwilling to treat directly with the American commissioners. He would go to London in an unofficial capacity and smooth the way to negotiations.
Major Baring slipped the bridle over the gate-post and took her hand in his. The grip of his fingers was very strong and reassuring. "Come," he said kindly, "let us go and look for this bogey of yours!"
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