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He was dragged a few yards before a couple of policemen could get to his side; but meanwhile, as he clung to the horses, like a brake on their speed, the brougham steadied itself, Sidney contrived to crawl inside and bang the door shut, for his own protection and Di's.
"What nonsense!" Dwight Herbert said angrily. But Ina said tensely: "Is it nonsense? Haven't I been trying and trying to find out where the black satchel went? Di!" Di's laughter rose, but it sounded thin and false. "Listen to that, Bobby," she said. "Listen!" "That won't do, Di," said Ina. "You can't deceive mamma and don't you try!"
"When the bell rang, I was so afraid something had happened to Di," said Ina sighing. "Let's see," said Di's father. "Where is little daughter to-night?" He must have known that she was at Jenny Plow's at a tea party, for at noon they had talked of nothing else; but this was his way. And Ina played his game, always. She informed him, dutifully. "Oh, ho," said he, absently.
At the word "married" Di turned scarlet, laughed heartily and lifted her glass of water. "And what instruments do you play?" Ina asked Cornish, in an unrelated effort to lift the talk to musical levels. "Well, do you know," said the music man, "I can't play a thing. Don't know a black note from a white one." "You don't? Why, Di plays very prettily," said Di's mother.
He was in a prodigious hurry when these young gentlemen knocked at his uncle's door the next day; but just as he got to the hall door, little Patty called to him from the top of the stairs, and told him that he had dropped his pocket- handkerchief. "Pick it up, then, and bring it to me, quick, can't you, child," cried Hal, "for Lady Di's sons are waiting for me?"
Miss Gale riddles the tedious affectations of the Deacon household almost without a word of comment; none the less she exhibits them under a withering light. The daughter, she says, "was as primitive as pollen" and biology rushes in to explain Di's blind philanderings.
Before they had reached the door, Ina bounded from the hall. "Darling!" She seized upon Di, kissed her loudly, drew back from her, saw the travelling bag. "My new bag!" she cried. "Di! What have you got that for?" In any embarrassment Di's instinctive defence was hearty laughter. She now laughed heartily, kissed her mother again, and ran up the stairs.
Dalziel to a "boy and girl" theatre party the very night when I had to congratulate Father, and wish wishes for Kitty which short of a miracle couldn't come true. It was only two days after Di's wedding, but already that event seemed long ago.
But no one exciting showed signs of entangling himself permanently, and so, when Major Vandyke wired that the situation in Mexico permitted him to ask for leave, Di's engagement was announced in the Morning Post. Soon after this, Sidney arrived with cartloads of luggage, which seemed to detach him from America forever. He had got long leave and intended to resign from the army at the end of it.
Di's eyes said, "You hero! you splendid, modest hero!" said it so plainly that the hero faintly blushed, though it was hard to trace a blush on his face, burnt red-brown by sun and wind. My eyes said nothing at all, but if they had recited a whole page of Shakespeare's sonnets he would have been none the wiser.
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