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And, seeing Nedda's smile, for the girl recollected perfectly having admired it during dinner at Uncle John's, and at Becket itself, she said decisively, "So that's that!" and settled her down on the sofa. But just as she was thinking, 'I have the very thing for the dear child's sunburn, Nedda said: "Granny, dear, I've been meaning to tell you Derek and I are engaged."
He knew I should never have cared for the loss of the money that we could have faced that together. Tell them so, mother; tell them." For the first time since he had known her Derek saw Diane forget her reserve in eager pleading. She stepped forward from Miss Lucilla's embrace, standing before Mrs. Eveleth with palms opened outward, in an attitude of petition.
"It's not only you fellows out there, Derek," he said, "who are feeling that way. We're all of us on the jump, and we're all of us bottling it up. The result is a trial such as we had the other day, with witnesses and judge screaming at each other, and dignity trampled in the mud. Every soul in England read the case generally twice before anything else.
Freddie returned to the Albany in a state of gloom and uneasiness. Algy's remarks, coming on top of the Wally Mason episode, had shaken him. The London in which he and Derek moved and had their being is nothing but a village, and it was evident that village gossip was hostile to Derek. People were talking about him. Local opinion had decided that he had behaved badly. Already one man had cut him.
The first sensation in Felix on reading this effusion was poignant recollection of the little lawyer's look after Derek had made the scene at Tryst's committal and of his words: 'Nothing in it, is there? His second thought: 'Is this the cutting of the knot that I've been looking for? His third, which swept all else away: 'My poor little darling!
Dorothea having left for Newport in the morning, Diane was, as usual, seeking the privacy of University Place for the two weeks the girl's visit was to last. Understanding her desire not to be alone with him for even a few hours when there was no third person in the house, Derek had taken the opportunity to motor for lunch to a friend's house some miles away.
He was scarcely surprised, for Pruyn had spoken more than once of showing him some civilities when they reached New York, and putting him up at one or two convenient dubs. "My dear sir," he cried, going forward with outstretched hand; but the words died on his lips as Derek pushed his way in brusquely, without greeting.
"Double!" remarked Felix. "The figures are variously given. My estimate " "One in sixty. That shows you!" At this interruption of Derek's John frowned slightly. "What does it show you?" he said. Derek glanced at his grandmother. "Oh, nothing!" "Of course it shows you," exclaimed Sheila, "what a heartless great place it is.
At sight of Derek he stopped and stood waiting, his loquacious face expressionless, his little, hard eye cocked. "Good morning, Tom. It's ages since I saw you." "Ah, 'tis a proper long time! You 'ad a knock." Derek winced; it was said as if he had been disabled in an affair in which Gaunt had neither part nor parcel.
Her rogue eyes gleamed from under a heavy frown. "It'd not be all 'Do this' an' 'Do that'; an' 'You bad girl' an' 'You little hussy! in London. They say there's room for more'n one sort of girl there." "All towns are beastly places, Wilmet." Again her rogue's eyes gleamed. "I don' know so much about that, Mr. Derek. I'm going where I won't be chivied about and pointed at, like what I am here."
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