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And as for that abominable woman " Lady Lundie touched Mrs. Glenarm on the shoulder with her fan. "I have my surprise in store, dear friend, as well as you. That abominable woman was employed as Blanche's governess in this house. Wait! that is not all. She left us suddenly ran away on the pretense of being privately married. I know where she went. I can trace what she did.
Glenarm whose approaching union with the Honorable Geoffrey Delamayn was alluded to in another column of the journal. Mrs. Glenarm had, it appeared, received an anonymous letter, on the first day of her arrival as guest at the house of a friend, residing in the neighborhood of Perth.
They had been together at Swanhaven for little more than ten days; and in that time he had made the conquest of Mrs. Glenarm. On the day before the garden-party in one of the leisure intervals allowed him by Perry he had caught her alone, had taken her by the arm, and had asked her, in so many words, if she would marry him.
Try a little music," he repeated, "just to quiet your nerves." "Would you like me to play?" asked Mrs. Glenarm, becoming a model of feminine docility at a moment's notice. Julius opened the Sonatas of Mozart, and shouldered his violin. "Let's try the Fifteenth," he said, placing Mrs. Glenarm at the piano. "We will begin with the Adagio.
She folded it and put it in the pocket of her dress. Then turned to go and stopped at the door. "One thing more," she added. "Do you know Mrs. Glenarm's present address?" "Ye're no' reely going to Mistress Glenarm?" "That is no concern of yours. You can answer my question or not, as you please." "Eh, my leddy! yer temper's no' what it used to be in the auld times at the hottle.
"Give me your hand, my poor dear, and confide it all to me!" "He is not quite innocent," said Mrs. Glenarm. "He owned to a foolish flirtation all her doing, no doubt. Of course, I insisted on a distinct explanation. Had she really any claim on him? Not the shadow of a claim. I felt that I only had his word for that and I told him so.
Before she had said three words, Lady Lundie's impatience to reach the end which she had kept in view from the time when Mrs. Glenarm had left the house burst the bounds which had successfully restrained it thus far. Stopping the landlady without ceremony, she fairly forced the conversation to the subject of Anne Silvester's proceedings at the Craig Fernie inn.
"You have only to go in by that door," he said, "and you will find Mrs. Glenarm alone." Anne bowed, and left him. Arrived at the short flight of steps which led up to the door, she paused to collect her thoughts before she went in. A sudden reluctance to go on and enter the room took possession of her, as she waited with her foot on the lower step. The report of Mrs.
She said, softly, "Oh, Geoffrey, if you could only be always like this!" Her eyes lifted themselves admiringly to his. She took his arm again of her own accord, and pressed it with a loving clasp. Geoffrey prophetically felt the ten thousand a year in his pocket. "Do you really love me?" whispered Mrs. Glenarm. "Don't I!" answered the hero. The peace was made, and the two walked on again.
"I asked you," resumed Sir Patrick, attempting to help him, "why the mere report that your friend was likely to marry Mrs. Glenarm roused your indignation, and you hesitated at giving an answer. Do you hesitate still?" "It's not easy to give an answer, Sir Patrick." "Let us put it in another way. I assume that your view of the report takes its rise in some knowledge, on your part, of Mr.
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