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As though to prove her contempt of female vanity and vulgar display, she dressed plainly, often carelessly a fact which of course served to emphasize her importance in the eyes of people who tried to seem richer than they were. Miss Glazzard rarely came into the town, but Serena visited Highmead at least once a week.
An eruption of Walter Bassett in the Press did not tend to allay her Ladyship's alarm, especially as Amber began to dally with the morning paper and the evening. Opening a new People's Library at Highmead in the absence abroad of the successful candidate he had contrived to set the newspapers sneering.
"And what is the true God, pray?" "The one whose angel and minister you have always been, Amber" he lowered his voice reverently "Love." "Love!" Her voice was bitter. "Any bench in the Park, any alley in Highmead, swarms with Love." 'Twas as if Cæsar had skipped from his imperial chariot to a sociable.
"I will marry you in a fortnight from to-day," said Serena, in quivering voice. "You will?" Glazzard walked back to Highmead with a countenance which alternated curiously between smiling and lowering. The smile was not agreeable, and the dark look showed his face at its worst.
"Ivy," he said to his niece, "I have promised to call at the Quarriers' on our way. We had better start at a quarter to nine; that will give us five minutes with them." Of his brother he took leave with much cordiality. William would probably not be much longer at Highmead, and might perhaps join his relatives abroad before the end of the year.
At the distance of a mile and a half from Polterham lay an estate which had long borne the name of Highmead. Here had dwelt three successive generations of Glazzards.
She remembered Denzil Quarrier's lecture on "Woman," and all he had said about the monstrously unfair position of girls who are asked in marriage by men of the world. And thereupon an idea came into her mind. Presently she had dried her tears, and in half-an-hour's time she left the house. Her purpose was to call upon Mrs. Quarrier, whom she had met not long ago at Highmead.
He said "one," but only out of modesty; for having once accepted a minor post in a Ministry that the Premier in posse had not succeeded in forming, he had retained a Cabinet air ever since. "Well, the beggar will scarcely come up at Highmead for a third licking," observed the Hon. Tolshunt. "No, poor Walter," said Lady Chelmer.
On the way to Polterham he dozed, and only a fortunate awaking at the last moment saved him from passing his station. It was now close upon two o'clock, and he had a two-mile walk to Highmead.
Eustace spent Christmas at Highmead, and made frequent calls at the house of the ex-Mayor. On one of the occasions it happened that the ladies were from home, but Mr. Mumbray, on the point of going out, begged Glazzard to come and have a word with him in his sanctum. After much roundabout talk, characteristically pompous, he put the question whether Mr. Glazzard, as a friend of Mr.
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