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But Constance was not an ordinary woman; she loved deeply, but she loved according to her nature as a woman proud and exacting must love. For Godolphin, her haughty step waxed timorous and vigilant; she always sprang forward the first to meet him on his return from his solitary ramblings, and he smiled upon her with his wonted gentleness but not so gratefully, thought Constance, as he ought.
The world would have insinuated scandal; but there was that about Constance's beauty which there is said by one of the poets to belong to an angel's it struck the heart, but awed the senses. "I don't know," said Godolphin to Radclyffe, as they were one day riding together among the green lanes that border the metropolis "I don't know what to do with myself this evening.
Of the new nobles, the most conspicuous were the Lord Treasurer Rochester, the Lord Keeper Guildford, the Lord Chief Justice Jeffreys, the Lord Godolphin, and the Lord Churchill, who, after his return from Versailles, had been made a Baron of England.
They were really very favorable, after all, and they witnessed to an interest in the play which could not be ignored. Very likely the interest in it was partly from the fact that Godolphin had given it, but apart from this it was evident that the play had established a claim of its own.
Godolphin felt a little humiliated at being indebted to another to a woman, for so splendid a tenement; but Constance, not penetrating into this sentiment, hastened up the broad stairs, and said, pointing to a door that led to her boudoir, "In that room cabinets have been formed and shaken."
What we want for Salome is sweetness and delicacy and refinement; for she has to do rather a bold thing, and yet keep herself a lady." "Well, it may be too late to talk of Miss Pettrell now," said Maxwell. "Your favorite Godolphin parted enemies with her." "Oh, stage enemies! Mr. Grayson can get her, and he must." "I'll tell him what your orders are," said Maxwell.
"That was a different thing. At any rate, it's I that say so now, and I want you to write that to him. It will bring him back flying. Will you?" "I'll think about it," said Maxwell; "I'm not sure that I want Godolphin back, or not at once. It's a great relief to be rid of him, in a certain way, though a manager might be worse slavery. Still, I think I would like to try a manager.
Constance was alarmed and stung, not at the vulgar accusation, the paltry sneer, but at the prophecy relating to Godolphin: "he had never distinguished himself in anything he never would."
"I was forced to leave these things to others," answered Constance; "but I took care that they possessed the necessary science." The night was exceedingly beautiful, and they walked forth under the summer moon among those grounds in which Constance had first seen Godolphin. They stood by the very rivulet they paused at the very spot!
The play was Pizarro, and Fanny Millinger acted Cora, Godolphin and Radclyffe went behind the scenes. "Ah!" said Fanny, as she stood in her white Peruvian dress, waiting her turn to re-enter the stage, "ah, Godolphin! this reminds me of old times. How many years have passed since you used to take such pleasure in this mimic life!
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