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Glenarm drew confidentially closer to the bedside. "How can you manage it?" she asked, eagerly. "Don't think me curious. I have my interest, too, in getting at the truth. Don't leave me out of it, pray!" "Can you come back to-morrow, at this time?" "Yes! yes!" "Come, then and you shall know." "Can I be of any use?" "Not at present." "Can my uncle be of any use?"
"You are the woman!" Anne rose on her side, still in firm possession of her self-control. "Mrs. Glenarm," she said, calmly, "I warn no, I entreat you not to take that tone with me. Compose yourself; and I promise to satisfy you that you are more interested than you are willing to believe in what I have still to say. Pray bear with me for a little longer. I admit that you have guessed right.
Say that family reasons, which you hope soon to have the pleasure of confiding to her, oblige you to appeal once more to her indulgence and come to-morrow, and help us to receive Mrs. Glenarm." Even Geoffrey was startled, when he found himself met by a sudden necessity for acting on his own decision. Anne knew where his brother lived. Glenarm?
No men are so entirely beyond the reach of women as the men whose lives are passed in the cultivation of their own physical strength. Geoffrey resisted Mrs. Glenarm without the slightest effort. He casually extorted her admiration, and undesignedly forced her respect.
If she could but bring the interview to this end there was the way found of extricating Arnold, by her own exertions, from the false position in which she had innocently placed him toward his wife! Such was the object before her, as she now stood on the brink of her interview with Mrs. Glenarm. Up to this moment, she had firmly believed in her capacity to realize her own visionary project.
The lady, on her side, declined to observe that any such person as the trainer was then in existence, and present in bodily form on the scene. "How about time?" said Geoffrey. Perry consulted an elaborate watch, constructed to mark time to the fifth of a second, and answered Geoffrey, with his eye all the while on Mrs. Glenarm. "You've got five minutes to spare."
Glenarm rose to leave the room. Geoffrey stopped her by main force. Mrs. Glenarm threatened to summon the servants. Geoffrey said, "All right! I don't care if the whole house knows I'm fond of you!" Mrs. Glenarm looked at the door, and whispered "Hush! for Heaven's sake!" Geoffrey put her arm in his, and said, "Come along with me: I've got something to say to you." Mrs.
Glenarm had implanted in her mind yielded to it. At that moment she absolutely pitied Anne! "Poor creature!" said Lady Holchester. He took instant offense at those two words. "I won't have my wife pitied by any body." With that reply, he dashed into the passage; and called out, "Anne! come down!" Her soft voice answered; her light footfall was heard on the stairs. She came into the room.
There was a light in her eyes, there was a ring in her voice, which showed that she was roused at last. Mrs. Glenarm answered her, this time. "He did tell me." "He lied!" "He did not! He knew. I believe him. I don't believe you." "If he told you that I was any thing but a single woman if he told you that Arnold Brinkworth was married to any body but Miss Lundie of Windygates I say again he lied!"
He whispered something to himself; and counted out what he was whispering slowly; in divisions of his own, on three of his fingers in succession. "But for you, I should be married to Mrs. Glenarm. But for you, I should be friends with my father. But for you, I should have won the race. I know what I owe you." His loosely hanging hands stealthily clenched themselves.
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