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Dame Gillian declared it unreasonable, that, since a woman was only allowed one husband, a man should, under any circumstances, be permitted to have two wives; while Raoul, glancing towards her a look of verjuice, pitied the deplorable idiocy of the man who could be fool enough to avail himself of such a privilege.
With such fine perceptive faculty as he possessed she would have expected him to be more tolerant more merciful in his judgment. Once she had tentatively approached the subject, but Magda had clearly indicated that she had no intention of discussing it. Not even to Gillian, whom she had gradually come to look upon as her closest friend, could Magda unveil the wound to her pride.
Macrae and the Silverfold carriage were actually gone to the station, and, oh! oh! oh! here it really was with papa on the box, and heaps of luggage, and here were Primrose and Gillian and mamma and Mrs.
White was so ill that going to see Kalliope was of no use, and Maura was of an age to be made useful at home; and there were features in the affair that rendered it inexpedient for Gillian to speak of it except in the strictest confidence to Aunt Jane or Mysie.
"How happy by my mother's side When some dear friend became a bride! To shine beyond the rest I was In gay embroidery drest. Vain of my drapery's rich brocade, I held my flowing locks to braid." "Epidemics of marriage set in from time to time," said Jane Mohun. "Gillian has set the fashion." For the Rock Quay neighbourhood was in a state of excitement over a letter from Mrs.
"I hope she is not going to be pathetic," and "She is enough to take one's breath away. But I think she has tact." After a few exchanges of inquiry and answer, Miss Mohun said "My niece Gillian is burning to see you, after all your kindness to her." "I shall be very glad. This is not quite a land of strangers." "I told her I was sure you would not want her to-day." "Thank you.
Gillian had caught enough from her four elders to share in an unreasoning way their prejudice, and she felt doubly savage and contemptuous when she heard 'Yes, I retired. 'And what are you doing now? 'I think I shall go abroad, and take lessons at Florence or Rome, though it is too late to do anything seriously -and there are affairs to be settled first.
Gillian came down with what she meant for a crushing rebuke, and the indignant colour rose in the cheeks of the guests; but Fergus persisted, 'But he makes a guy of himself and a mountebank. Aunt Jane thought it time to interfere. 'Fergus, she said, 'you had better not repeat improper sayings, especially about a clergyman. Fergus wriggled.
But, oh mamma, said Gillian, feeling as if the thorn in her thoughts must be extracted, 'are you sure it is not all her beauty? 'Her beauty, no doubt, began it, and gratifies the artist eye; but I am sure his perseverance is due to appreciation of her noble character, said Lady Merrifield. 'Oh, mamma, would he if she had been ever so good, and no prettier than other people?
He would probably rave a little, despairing in the picturesque and dramatic fashion characteristic of him, and the sooner he "got it out of his system," as Gillian had observed on one occasion, the better for everyone concerned. So Magda braced herself for the interview, and prepared to receive a tragical and despondent Davilof.
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