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Inside the letter to herself had been a very small note addressed to Lily. "Give her the enclosed," Crosbie had said in his letter, "if you do not now think it wrong to do so. I have left it open, that you may read it." Mrs Dale, however, had not yet read it, and she now concealed it beneath her handkerchief. I will not repeat at length Crosbie's letter to Mrs Dale.
"Yes," said John, speaking of Crosbie, "he was a wise fellow; he knew what he was about; he married an earl's daughter." "And now I remember hearing that somebody gave him a terrible beating. Perhaps it was you?" "It wasn't terrible at all," said Johnny. "Then it was you?" "Oh, yes; it was I." "Then it was you who saved poor old Lord De Guest from the bull?" "Go on, Mrs Arabin.
But the majority of men, as I take it, make no such resolution, and very many men resolve that they will be unsuccessful. Crosbie, however, had resolved on success, and had done much towards carrying out his purpose. He had made a name for himself, and had acquired a certain fame. That, however, was, as he acknowledged to himself, departing from him.
"My memory is very good," said the countess; "very good indeed. If Twitch got it, and didn't tell me, that was not my fault." Twitch was her ladyship's lady's-maid. Crosbie, seeing how the land lay, said nothing more about the bracelet. After a minute or two he put out his hand to take that of Alexandrina.
On the present occasion, the usual amount of business was transacted, but it was done in a manner which made Crosbie feel that they did not all stand together on their usual footing. The three Commissioners were all there. The Chairman gave his directions in a solemn, pompous voice, which was by no means usual to him when he was in good humour.
It not seldom happens that a man's character stands too high for his interest, so high that it cannot be maintained, and so high that any fall will be dangerous. And so it was with Crosbie and his character at the General Committee Office.
Lady Demolines' rank was not much certainly; but it served to mark her, and was beneficial. As he went downstairs Eames was still thinking of his meeting with Crosbie, and had as yet hardly said a word to his neighbour, and his neighbour had not said a word to him.
"There is light enough for him," said Lily, "for he plays quite independently of the hoops; don't you, Mr Crosbie?" "There's very pretty croquet light, I should say," said Mr Crosbie, looking up at the bright moon; "and then it is so stupid going to bed." "Yes, it is stupid going to bed," said Lily; "but people in the country are stupid, you know.
And why was it so with her? In the old days she would have forgiven Crosbie any offence at a word or a look, any possible letter to any M. D., let her have been ever so abominable! Nay, had she not even forgiven him the offence of deserting herself altogether on behalf of a woman as detestable as could be any M. D. of Johnny's choosing, a woman whose only recommendation had been her title?
I have been naughtier than you, because I am older, and because, at the time I did it, I knew I was wrong; and when I saw those beautiful bonnets, I felt as if there had been a thorn put into my heart." "It is odd," said Emily, "that I did not think of it, even when I saw you crying." "If Miss Crosbie had not been so kind," replied Lucy, "I should not have cared.
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