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She was disappointed, however, to find that although he was frequently in her and Ida's company at the Amusement Club or elsewhere, he made no effort to compete with Charlesworth or Melville or any other man who sought to monopolise her, but drew back and allowed him to have a clear field while he himself seemed content to talk to Mrs. Smith. At first she was hurt. He was her friend, not Ida's.
It was doubtful if Charlesworth himself knew what he wanted. He was a man who loved his liberty and his right to make love to each and every woman who caught his fancy.
For example, James Charlesworth, a Single Brother, was appointed manager of a cloth-weaving factory, which for some years did a splendid trade with Portugal and Russia, kept the Single Brethren in regular employment, and supplied funds for general Church objects.
And the thought of all that she had put in hers to him made her face burn, for it seemed so vapid and frivolous that he was sure to despise her. On the fourth day after she had written to Dermot she was engaged to ride in the afternoon with Captain Charlesworth.
One, a tall, fair man, named Charlesworth, a captain in a Rifle battalion quartered in Lebong, the military suburb of Darjeeling, remarked to his companion: "I wonder who is the pretty, golden-haired girl travelling with that native. How the deuce does she come to be with him? She can't be his wife." "You never know," replied the other, an artillery subaltern named Turner.
If he did not value her society he should see that others did, and she suddenly grew more gracious to Charlesworth, who seemed to sense in Dermot a more dangerous rival than was Melville or any of the others and began to be more openly devoted and to put more meaning into his intentions.
"I heard her speak on the platform at Siliguri." "She certainly looks all right," admitted his friend. "Smart and well-turned out, too. But one can never tell nowadays." "Let's stroll by her carriage and get a nearer view of her," said Charlesworth.
"This is the last will of me, John Mallathorpe, of Normandale Grange, in the parish of Normandale, in the West Riding of the County of York. I appoint Martin William Charlesworth, manufacturer, of Holly Lodge, Barford, and Arthur James Wyatt, chartered accountant, of 65, Beck Street, Barford, executors and trustees of this my will.
But Charlesworth was not allowed to have it all his own way with her. Bain and an Indian Army officer named Melville also claimed her attention. The knowledge that we are appreciated tends to make most of us appear at our best, and Noreen soon forgot her shyness and loneliness and became her usual natural, bright self.
You don't want that will to be handed over to the trustees named in it, Charlesworth & Wyatt?" "Do you think I'm a fool man!" she flashed out. "I should be a fool myself if I did," replied Pratt calmly. "And I'm not a fool. Very well then you'll square me. You'll buy me. Come to terms with me, and nobody shall ever know. I repeat to you what I've said before not a soul knows now, no nor suspects!
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