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It's what I'm here for," said Susan Foley. "I'd sooner have it than mill work any day o' the week." "You're just going to be very mean if you don't stay here," Nick faltered. Tears stood in her eyes again. "You don't know how I feel." She murmured something about Betty Burke's doings. "We will stay! We will stay!" Miss Ingate agreed hastily.
"Come and look, Winnie," said Audrey, who occasionally thought fit to address Miss Ingate in the manner of the elder generation. She drew Miss Ingate to the window. Between the brown curtains Mozewater, the broad, shallow estuary of the Moze, was spread out glittering in the sunshine which could not get into the chilly room.
And, unperceived by Nick, she gave Audrey a glance in which irony and tenderness were mingled. It was as if she had whispered, "The nerves of this angel have all gone to pieces. We must humour the little sentimental simpleton." "We've begun, ye see," said Susan Foley. It was two minutes past five, and Miss Ingate and Audrey, followed by Nick with her slung arm, entered the sheeted living-room.
"About those shares going to the National Reformation Society. He meant them to go, and they must go to the Society. I've thought it well over and I've quite decided. I didn't tell Miss Ingate, as it doesn't concern her. But I felt I must tell you at once." "Mother!" cried Audrey. "Have you taken leave of your senses?"
But Lady Southminster would not collect hers, nor allow it to be collected. She agreed with Miss Ingate and Audrey that her husband must ultimately reappear either on the quay or in the train. While they were all standing huddled together in the throng waiting for the gangway to put ashore, she said in a low casual tone, propos of nothing: "I only married him the day before yesterday.
Her eyes seemed to be saying: "I am overpowered, and yet there is something in me that is not overpowered, and by virtue of my kind-hearted derision I, from Essex, am superior to you all!" Audrey, with glance downcast, followed Miss Ingate, and Musa came last, sinuously. Nobody looked up at them more than casually, but at intervals during the passage Tommy and Nick nodded and smiled: "How d'ye do?
"I rather wanted to ask your advice," she said. "I wish you would," he replied. Just then the Foas arrived, and with them Dauphin, the great and fashionable painter and the original discoverer of Musa. And as they all began to speak at once Audrey heard the Oriental musical critic say slowly to an inquiring Miss Ingate: "It is not a concert talent that he has." "You hear!
"Whenever I think of the police I laugh," said Miss Ingate in an unsettled voice. "I can't help it. They can't possibly suspect. And they're looking everywhere, everywhere! I can't help laughing." And suddenly she burst into tears. "Oh! Now! Winnie, dear. Don't spoil it all!" Audrey protested, jumping up. Madame Piriac, who had hitherto maintained the most complete passivity, restrained her.
"Yes, you can, and yet you can't!" exclaimed Miss Ingate. "You can, and yet you can't!" "I met Miss Ingate on Frinton front," Jane Foley proceeded. "She was just getting into her carriage. I had my bag and I asked her to drive me to the station. 'To the station? she said. 'What for? There's no train to-night." "No more there wasn't!"
The act was a deliberate exploitation of widowhood. The official fiercely shrugged his shoulders and threw up his arms, and told the porteur to open the small trunk. "I told you they would," said Miss Ingate negligently.
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