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Edmonstone went to a drawer, took out two or three bundles of old letters, and after searching in them by the fire-light, said 'Ah! here's a little about her; it is in a letter from my sister-in-law, Philip's mother, when they were staying at Stylehurst. 'Who? My father and mother? cried Guy eagerly. 'Did you not know they had been there three or four days?
'My dear, my dear, you ought not to be here, said Mrs. Edmonstone, trying to lead her away. 'If you would let me say my prayers here! said she, submissively. 'I think not. I don't know how to refuse, if it would be a comfort, said Mrs. Edmonstone, much distressed, 'but I can't think it right. The danger is greater after.
Edmonstone was very busy, and glad to be so, as she must otherwise have given way; and there was Aunt Charlotte to be talked to, whom they had not seen since Charles's illness. She was a short, bustling, active person, with a joyous face, inexhaustible good-humour, a considerable touch of Irish, and referring everything to her mother, her one thought.
Morville was engaged to the other Miss Edmonstone did but render him more furious, for he regarded it as a sort of outrage to Lady Morville's feelings that a courtship should be carried on in the house with her.
I certainly understood from the late James Rutherford, Esqr., of the Customs, Edinburgh, a cadet of the Rutherfords of Edgerston, and through his mother, a female descendant one of the nearest of the Edmonstones of Corehouse, that it was in consequence of the great exertions of an Edmonstone of Corehouse that the guilty Cranston was first concealed, and afterwards enabled to escape abroad.
As she finished writing, Mrs. Edmonstone came in. 'My Amy, all is ready. We must go. Good-bye, Philip, said she, in the tone of one so eager for departure as to fancy farewells would hasten it. However, she was not more eager than Mr. Edmonstone, who rushed in to hurry them on, shaking hands cordially with Philip, and telling him to make haste and recover his good looks. Amabel held out her hand.
'I suppose the damage was brewing, and that the shake brought it into an active state. There's a medical opinion for you! 'Well, I never knew what you thought of it before, said Mrs. Edmonstone. 'Why, when I had a condor to pick on Guy's account with Philip, I was not going to pick a crow on my own, said Charles. 'Oh! is luncheon ready; and you all going? I never see anybody now.
'Then you do not mean to go? said Lady Kilcoran. 'I do not, she continued, 'for my health is never equal to so much excitement, and it would only be giving poor Mrs. Edmonstone additional trouble to have to attend to me. 'So you really mean to stay away? said Eveleen. 'I have not entirely decided. 'At any rate you must go and tell old Aunt Mabel all about them, said Eveleen.
'I never can bear to talk about the best kinds of happiness, said she; 'but oh! and she sprang up, 'here they come. Poor Mrs. Edmonstone, as she walked back from her mushroom-field, she little guessed that words had been spoken which would give the colouring to her daughter's whole life she little guessed that her much-loved and esteemed nephew had betrayed her confidence!
Edmonstone cried heartily over the baby, advised Amabel endlessly about her, and finally looked back through her tears, as she drove away, to see Charles nodding and waving his hand at the bay-window, and Amabel standing with her parting smile and good-bye on the steps. The reports, moral and physical, proved that Charles had judged wisely.
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