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Finchley? A new arrival, I suppose?" "Oh, only a girl he brought out from England with him," Colonel Colquhoun answered coarsely, staring hard at the girl as he spoke, and forgetting himself for once in his extreme irritability. "He ought not to bring her here, though," he added carelessly. Mr. Finchley had passed them, hanging his head, and pretending not to see them. Evadne flushed crimson.
The want of intelligence in the community at large was made painfully apparent by the stories of her peculiar opinions which were freely circulated and seldom suspected. The Queen of Beersheba declared that Evadne approved of the frightful cruelties which the people inflicted on the nobles during the Reign of Terror, that she had heard her say so herself.
His heart was exhausted by the recent events; his enjoyment of life was destroyed by the resentment of Perdita, and the flight of Evadne; and the inflexibility of the former, set the last seal upon the annihilation of his hopes.
"Why, Penelope, what are you doing?" cried Evadne in amaze. "Polishin', child. I learnt it long ago. One day I was that wore out I wouldn't have cared if the sky had fallen, things had been goin' crooked, an' Mother hadn't slept well for a fortnight, an' I was that narvous an' tuckered out I thought I'd fly to pieces.
"I suppose you agree with Sir Shadwell Rock," she said. "Let me help you up," I answered. "Do you?" she persisted. "Of course. He is our chief authority," I answered. "But promise me, Evadne, not to look at any of those books again without consulting me. I shall be having you like the medical students who imagine they have symptoms of every disease they study."
He denied hotly, for instance, that Evadne had any natural affection, and yet it was upon that woman's weakness of hers that he set to work at once, proving himself to be possessed of a perfect, if unconscious, knowledge of her most vulnerable point; and he displayed much ingenuity in his manner of making it a means of torture.
Chrimes the cold shoulder too; the inconsistency is customary, and in this particular Evadne was as much a creature of custom as the rest. It was my fate to take Evadne in to dinner on the first occasion of our meeting. I did not hear her name when I was presented, and had no idea who she was, but I was struck by her appearance.
"Louis, please listen!" implored Evadne, with a white, strained face. "This is utterly impossible, for I do not love you." "I will teach you, dear," said Louis cheerfully. "I know I have been a brute, but I will show you how gentle I can be." "Louis!" cried Evadne desperately, "you must let me go! I will never do this thing!" She pulled vainly at the ring as she spoke. Louis' grasp never relaxed.
They must behave themselves." Evadne smiled. "I am beginning to know that phrase," she said. "It puzzled me at first, because it is neither reason nor argument, but merely an assertion somewhat in the nature of a command, and equally applicable to either sex, if the other chose to use it. But I know that what you have just said with regard to Mrs.
Evadne knelt on the hearthrug, and stirred the fire, making it burn up brightly. Mrs. Orton Beg returned the letter to the envelope when she had read it. "What did you do?" she said.
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