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Meanwhile, Sir Philip Bruce-Errington, proud, happy, and triumphant, drew his wife into a close embrace as they drove home together, and said, "You were the queen of the evening, my Thelma! Have you enjoyed yourself?" "Oh, I do not call that enjoyment!" she declared. "How is it possible to enjoy anything among so many strangers?" "Well, what is it?" he asked laughingly. She laughed also.
Grubbs still sat on the floor groaning. "You must eat those words," went on the Vere calmly. "Eat 'em up with sauce for dinner. The 'admired actress well known at the Brilliant, has nothing to do with the Bruce-Errington man, not she! He's a duffer, a regular stiff one no go about him anyhow. And what the deuce do you mean by calling me an offending dama. Keep your oaths to yourself, will you?"
The virtuous Bruce-Errington left his saintly wife and me to talk little platitudes together, while he, decorously accompanied by his secretary, went down to pay court to Violet Vere. How stout she is getting! Why don't you men advise her to diet herself? I know you also went behind the scenes of course, you are an ami intime promising boy you are, to be sure!
He told me that if I came here to-night I should see one of the loveliest women living, Lady Bruce-Errington. He saw her in the park. I think this gentleman" indicating Sir Francis Lennox, who bites his moustache vexedly "said quite openly at the Club last night that she was the new beauty, and that she would be here this evening."
I certainly invited her to-night out of charity and kindness in order that she might get a little accustomed to society for, of course, poor creature! entirely ignorant and uneducated as she is, everything will seem strange to her. But she has not come " "SIR PHILIP AND LADY BRUCE-ERRINGTON!" announces Briggs at this juncture.
I admire her almost as much as I do Lady Bruce-Errington and that's saying a great deal! By-the-by, if Phil can get through his share of this country's business, he might do worse than bring his beautiful Thelma to the Lake of Como for a while. I'll ask him!" And having lit their Havannas successfully, they walked on and soon disappeared.
"Clara," then said Lord Winsleigh gravely, "I have to ask you a question on behalf of Sir Philip Errington here, a question to which it is necessary for you to give the plain answer. Did you or did you not procure this letter from Violet Vere, of the Brilliant Theatre and did you or did you not, give it yourself yesterday into the hands of Lady Bruce-Errington?"
I would not accept 'im for my pussonal attendant. No! But Sir Philip Bruce-Errington " He paused, then continued, "Air you sure of your facts, Mamzelle?" Mamzelle was so sure, that the bow on her cap threatened to come off with the determined wagging of her head. "Well," resumed Briggs, "Sir Philip may, like hothers, consider it 'the thing' you know, to 'ang on as it were to Vi.
"I don't want to talk about Lennie, as you call him," she said, rather testily "Only I think you'd better be careful how far you go with him. I came to consult you on something quite different. What are you going to do about the Bruce-Errington business? You know it was in the Post to-day that they've arrived in town. The idea of Sir Philip bringing his common wife into society!
He is not intellectual he is the most vacillating, most meek and timid of mortals but he is a gentleman in his own poor fashion, and has a sort of fluttering chivalry about him, which, though feeble, is better than none. "I really cannot tell you, Miss Marcia," he replies almost nervously. "I hear at the Club, that that Lady Bruce-Errington is a great beauty."
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