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"He is most devoted to Peter's interests, my dear lady," said the canon, warmly, "and he informed me that Mr. John Crewys had done wonders in the past two years." "He has turned the whole place topsy-turvy in two years, in my opinion," said Miss Crewys. "I don't deny that he is a rising young man, and that his manners are very taking. But what can a Cockney lawyer know, about timber, pray?"
I came straight from the school-house, as Lady Mary suggested. I wanted to have a look at the improvements." "Sarah Hewel is coming to lunch," said Miss Crewys. "I cannot say we approve of her, since she has been out so much in London, and become such a notorious young person." "It's very odd to me," said the canon, benevolently, "little Sarah growing up into a fashionable beauty.
"Sarah, you're not in earnest! You can't be! I I know I ought to be angry." Miss Sarah laughed derisively. "Yes, you laugh, for you know too well I can't be angry with you. I love you!" said Peter, passionately, "though you are as cruel as though I've not had pretty well as much to bear to-day, as I know how to stand. First, John Crewys, and now you saying " "Just the truth," said Sarah, calmly.
"During all the years of his married life Sir Timothy never hired a furnished house," said Miss Crewys. "The home of his fathers sufficed him." "She may want a change?" suggested the canon. Miss Crewys interpreted him literally. "No; she is in the best of health." "Better than I have ever seen her, and and gayer" said Lady Belstone, with emphasis.
Being a sailor, and not a clergyman," she added sternly, "he frequented such places of amusement. But he said he could not have enjoyed a ballet properly with me looking on. His feelings were singularly delicate." "I am afraid people must be talking about dear Mary a good deal, canon," said Miss Crewys, whisking a ball of wool from the floor to her knee with much dexterity.
"I've not spoken to her once except before other people since John Crewys told me what I told you this afternoon. I've scarcely seen any one since I left you. I wandered off for a beastly walk in the woods by myself, as miserable as any fellow would be, after all you said to me. Do you think I I've got no feelings?" His voice sounded very forlorn, and Sarah felt remorseful.
He had seen the signs of weeping on Lady Mary's face as she stumbled over the threshold of the window into the very arms of John Crewys, and his feelings were divided between passionate sympathy with his divinity, and anger with the returned hero, who had no doubt reduced his mother to this distressful state.
He felt he was a man, and ought to go and his grandfather was a soldier it is in the blood of the Setouns to want to fight for their country," said Lady Mary, with a smile and a little thrill of pride; for, after all, if her boy were a Crewys, he was also a Setoun. "Besides, poor child, you were so young; you didn't think; you didn't know "
"Our poor Mary has grown so dependent on John, however, that she will hear nothing against him. One has to mind one's p's and q's," said Lady Belstone. "He planned the alterations in this very hall," said Miss Crewys, "and the only excuse he offered, so far as I could understand, was that it would amuse poor Mary to carry them out."
John Crewys made an involuntary step forward and placed himself between the sofa and the table, as though to shield Lady Mary from their observation, but he could not prevent their words from reaching her ears. She whispered to him very softly. "Will you get the letter for me? I want to see for myself what what Peter says." "Go quietly into the library," said John, bending over her for a moment.
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