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So they drove in a hansom, through a night which washed the fog away, to Kennington Road, and whilst Polly kept her place in the vehicle Gammon ran upstairs. There lay the letter on his dressing-table. He hastened down with it, and before handing it to its writer kissed the envelope. "Go along!" exclaimed Polly, in high good humour, as she reached out with eager fingers.
"That Miss Eliot the real estate woman, you know " George stiffened into an attitude of close attention "spoke about the conditions under which women are working in the mills in this city and in the rest of the county " Genevieve averted her mirrored eyes from his mirrored face. She moved toward her dressing-table.
"Did you forget?" "Yes, I forgot all about it," Milly admitted bluntly. "You see so much has happened since " "Then you didn't get my letters?" he pressed on eagerly, ignoring Milly's last words. "Oh, yes, I got all your letters," she said hastily, remembering that she had not found time or heart to open the last bulky three, which lay upstairs on her dressing-table.
When the Lindsays arrived it was also her chief concern to get them into the shade. Mr. Adamson was her guest, whilst the Lindsays went on to Ikotobong. His room an erection built out from the house had mud walls and a mat roof, and was furnished with a camp-bed, a box for dressing-table and another for a washstand, and for company he had abundance of spiders and beetles and lizards.
Hugh ate his breakfast sullenly. To Louise, who put in a late appearance, and helped herself off the hot-plate, he said cheerfully: "How lazy you are!" "It's not laziness, Hugh," replied the girl. "The maid was so late with my tea and well, to tell the truth, I upset a whole new box of powder on my dressing-table and had to clean up the mess." "More haste less speed," laughed Hugh.
She had not as yet put the letter, as she had intended, on his dressing-table, but still had it in her pocket; nor had it occurred to her that he would as yet have known the truth. She looked at him when he entered, but did not at first utter a word. "Mary," he said. "Well; is anything the matter?" It was possible that she had not found the letter, possible, though very improbable.
There were others, too, but it was upon these five that Annette decided to concentrate. She put on her hat, took her money and her Journal, and turned to the door. A curious impulse checked her there and she came back to the mirror that hung above her dressing-table. "Let's have a look at you!" said Annette to the reflection that confronted her. She stood, examining it seriously.
He bowed his head lowly; but his smile was one of triumph, as he thought how, this time at least, he had wounded her. 'There are some trinkets, Cecil, said she coldly, 'which I have made into a packet, and you will find them on your dressing-table.
Two o'clock boomed from the watching towers of Westminster over the great city. She rose from her bed, cold as a marble figure on a monument, and went to the dressing-table to take off her few and simple ornaments. The mirror on it was the same from which that alien smile had peered twelve months ago, filling the sad soul of Milly with trembling fear and sinister foreboding.
He became unpopular then among the millworkers, and he esteemed his life unsafe if he took his long and lonely walks unarmed; so he began the habit, which has continued to this day, of invariably carrying a loaded pistol about with him. It lay on his dressing-table with his watch; with his watch it was put on in the morning; with his watch it was taken off at night.
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