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Then the two elder women wrapped Katherine about with an atmosphere of if possible deeper tenderness than before; mingling sentiment with their gaiety, and gaiety with their sentiment, and the delicate respect which refrains from question with both. One keenly bright October afternoon Richard Calmady called in the rue de Rennes.
A girl is bound to think of her family, as well as of herself. She is bound to consider " The groom-of-the-chambers opened the door and advanced solemnly across the boudoir to Lord Fallowfeild. "Sir Richard Calmady is in the smoking-room, my lord," he said, "to see you."
And when at Bologna, just as the train was starting, General Ormiston entered the compartment occupied by the two ladies, there was that in his manner which made Miss St. Quentin lay aside the magazine she was reading and, rising silently from her place opposite Lady Calmady, go out on to the narrow passageway of the long sleeping-car.
Then would follow confidences as to the disastrous results of popish influences and Romanising tendencies; and an openly expressed conviction more especially on the part of ladies blessed with daughters of marriageable age that it would have been so very much better for many people if the late Sir Richard Calmady had looked nearer home for a bride. But these comments did not affect Katherine.
And this filled her with anxiety and far-reaching fears, not only because it was bitter to have some woman other than herself hold the chief place in her son's affections, but because she as John Knott, even as Ludovic Quayle, though from quite other causes could not but apprehend possibilities of danger, even of disaster, surrounding all question of love and marriage in the strange and unusual case of Richard Calmady.
Poor, dear chap, he hasn't had much chance of being anything else as yet." "Still, of course, Lady Calmady would prefer his being settled. Clearly it would be much better in every way. All things considered, he is certainly one of the people who should marry young.
"They must go on," he continued, "till, in the merciful providence of God, their term is reached, till their power is exhausted, till they have worn themselves out." Lady Calmady turned and moved thoughtfully towards the far end of the room, where the sunshine still slanted in through the open casements of the bay window, and where the delicate, little spinster lady stood awaiting her.
He turned away, laying his cheek against the stone window-ledge, while the drops of a passing scud of rain beat in on his hot face. "Then then my father never saw me," he exclaimed vehemently. And, after a moment's pause, added, "I am glad of that very glad." "Ah! But, my dearest," Lady Calmady cried, bewildered and aghast, "you don't know what you are saying think."
Still he did as Richard prayed him. Miss Cathcart was at home. She had just come in from riding. "Tell her Sir Richard Calmady is here, and would like, if he may, to see her." Without waiting for a reply, Ormiston unbuckled that same chastening strap silently, quickly.
But to shore up a twenty-foot, stone wall with a wisp of straw, my dear doctor, does that proceeding approve itself to your common sense? And, as is a wisp of straw to such a wall, so was my poor, little sister, it's hardly flattering to my family pride to admit it, but thus indeed was she, and no otherwise, to Dickie Calmady."
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