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I'm also sorry for your good religious people, and particularly sorry for the phraseology of their earnest inquiries on what I am sure is a matter of life and death to them spiritually. That's my last word, Thomas." "And you were doing so well at the Joss-house, too." Lord Earlscourt was shaking his head sorrowfully, as he spoke. "We were all getting on so comfortably.
By the way, Lady Earlscourt invited me to join the yachting party. She did not mention it to her husband, however. She thought that there should be a chaplain aboard.
"Oh, no, my dear Phyllis!" continued Lady Earlscourt; "you must not persist in your ill-treatment of Mr. Holland. If you do he may marry someone else." Phyllis shook her head. "I hope he will, indeed," said she. "He certainly will never marry me." "Do not be obdurate," said Lady Earlscourt. "He may not really believe in all that he put into that book."
"And Eve the new one of that name," said Phyllis. "Theology is in the air!" cried Ella. "Even the stage of a theater is not free from the taint. It must be the case of Mr. Holland. Where is Mr. Holland, by the way, Lord Earlscourt?" "I haven't seen him for some time. He must have gone away. I'm not Mr. Holland's keeper, thank Heaven!" said Lord Earlscourt, with heartfelt devoutness.
This interview had taken place a week before the dinner party for which Phyllis was carefully dressed by her maid Fidele while Herbert Courtland was walking away from the house. In spite of her logic, Lady Earlscourt now and again stumbled across the truth.
Linton's carriage received Phyllis. Lord Earlscourt took a seat in Mr. Courtland's hansom. "What do you think about Mr. Courtland?" inquired Ella of her dearest friend, as they lay back with their heads very close together. There was a long pause before Phyllis replied: "I really don't know what I think about him. He is, I suppose, the bravest man alive at present." "What?
He was also invited by the Countess of Earlscourt to appear on the platform to meet the deputation of Chinese who represented the city meeting held at Pekin in favor of local option in England; for the great national voice of China had pronounced in favor of local option in England. Shortly afterward he met Phyllis Ayrton, and had asked her to marry him, and she had consented.
"So we gathered from what papa told us when he came in about midnight, bringing Mr. Linton with him," said Phyllis. "Ella had come across to me before nine, to ask me to go with her to 'Romeo and Juliet' at Covent Garden, forgetting that I was dining with Lady Earlscourt." "But you had not returned from the dinner party at nine," he suggested.
Don't let anyone know that I confided in you all that I think on the subject of the old Adam and the new Eve." "No one except Ella Linton, and you know that I can keep nothing from her if we are to remain dearest friends. Perhaps she knows already the limits of your belief, Mr. Courtland." "She does she does." At that moment Ella Linton came up with Lord Earlscourt. "Has Mr.
Tommy was so indignant with his friend for the part he had played in this transaction he ceased to speak to him, and went the length of openly insulting him. Six years afterward, when he had become Earl of Earlscourt, and had espoused the daughter of a duke, a lady who was greatly interested in the advance of temperance, he had presented George Holland with the living at St. Chad's.
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