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It was this idea which had flashed upon her during her last talk with Winnington, and she had been brooding over it, and pondering it ever since. Winnington himself was away. He and his sister had been spending Christmas with some cousins in the midlands. Meanwhile Delia recognised that his relation to her had been somewhat strained.
And the old father says 'What am I to do, Miss? I can't turn her out she's my own flesh and blood. I've got to stick to her else there'll be worse happening. It's not justice, Miss and it's not Gospel. Well!" Delia seated herself with energy, "I've told him to have her home at once and I'll see to it."
He seemed to have nothing to say, but she knew the picture of lone 'Delia sitting on the steps was far from moving him. It did cause him an honest trouble, for he was kind; but not for that would he postpone his work. "Oliver," she continued, "did you ever know what 'twas that made me tell you we must break off bein' engaged?" He was looking at her earnestly.
For more than half an hour did that "disreputable creature," as Lady Tonbridge roundly dubbed him, remain closeted with Delia, in Delia's drawing-room. Towards the end of the time the visitor overhead was walking to and fro impatiently, vowing to herself that she was bound positively bound to Winnington to go down and dislodge the man.
For a long time at any rate, she could be independent of it. Why had she never thought of such a device before? But how to realise the jewels? In all business affairs, Delia was the merest child. She had been brought up in the midst of large expenditure, of which she had been quite unconscious. All preoccupation with money had seemed to her mean and pettifogging.
For Winnington also it was clearly an awkward moment. He began at once to talk of his old recollections of her parents, of her mother's beauty, of her father's reputation as the most dashing soldier on the North-West frontier, in the days when they first met in India. "But his health was even then very poor. I suppose it was that made him leave the army?" "Yes and then Parliament," said Delia.
But I do think that, given what you want, you are going entirely the wrong way to get it." She drew a long and desperate breath. "Oh, for goodness sake don't let's argue!" He refrained. But after a moment he added, still more gravely "And I do protest most strongly! against the influence upon you of the lady you have taken to live with you!" Delia made a vehement movement.
He had seen the paper in Boston or in New York and it had simply struck him dumb. It was very well for Delia to say that of course he didn't write when he was on the ocean: how could they get his letters even if he did? There had been time before before he sailed; though Delia represented that people never wrote then.
In the afternoon, it was a wet Saturday afternoon Lady Tonbridge sitting in the drawing-room, saw the science mistress of the Dame Perrott School coming up the drive. Madeleine knew her as a "Daughter," and could not help scowling at her unseen. She was at once admitted however, and spent a short time with Delia in the Library.
"They wanted me to say I knew nothing about it but I couldn't." "But you didn't and you don't if you haven't even read it!" Delia almost yelled. "Where IS the d -d thing?" their companion asked, looking helplessly about him. "On the boulevard, at the very first of those kiosks you come to. That old woman has it the one who speaks English she always has it.
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