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On the other hand, she could hardly believe in the reality of what she saw, she thought she must be dreaming, for here was exactly what she had been pining for most in the whole wide world of late, a secret spot, sacred to herself, where she would be safe from intrusion. She went downstairs for some oil for the lock, and patiently worked at it until at last she succeeded in turning the key.
She was indeed weary of a losing strife, and only for a glimmer of possible help from her cousin, saw ruin inevitable before her. But this revival of hope in George had roused afresh her indignation at the intrusion of Wingfold with what she chose to lay to his charge as unsought counsel.
Never had the wood before shown so sweet a sense of security from the turmoil and tempest of the world beyond; never before had an intrusion from the outer life even in the shape of a letter seemed so wicked a desecration. Tempted by the solicitation of air and shade, she lingered, with Low's herbarium slung on her shoulder.
She answered in the negative; said she was on a visit to the family, to whom she was related: added that she had not expected to see any one in the garden; but this was said as if she meant rather to apologise for her undress, than to reproach me for my intrusion. These remarks were uttered with a propriety and sweetness that won upon me yet more than her beauty.
Before the entrance stood two large furniture-vans; the doorway was littered with materials of packing, and the hall was full of objects in disorder, footsteps made a hollow resonance in all parts of the house, for everywhere the long wonted conditions of sound were disturbed. The library was already dismantled; here he could close the door and walk about without fear of intrusion.
Little was said as on and on through the polar night the aeroplane drove, the great wind of the roof of the world harassing her savagely, viciously, as if it resented her intrusion into the long hidden arcana of the polar Plateau. It grew so bitter cold that the chill ate even through their furs and air-proofed clothing.
Primrose felt at that moment the great lady's visit to be an intrusion. "I'll just run into the garden and stop Miss Jasmine and Miss Daisy rushing into the drawing-room all in a mess," said Hannah. "Oh! sakes alive! why, the young ladies will be seen anyhow from the French window."
The little inquisitor looked furious, and glanced towards the chief for protection; but his intrusion had provoked wrath in that quarter, and his glance was returned with a rigid smile. "Prisoner," said the head of the tribunal, "though the question was put improperly, it was itself a proper one. How do you live?" "By my abilities." "That is a very doubtful support in those times."
Although he was not a man to put his trust in faces, as his young secretary inclined to do, Mrs. Lawrence's look of honest boy did count among the pleadings. And somewhat so might a government cruiser observe the intrusion of a white-sailed yacht in protected sea-waters, where licenced trawlers are at the haul. Talk over the table coursed as fluently as might be, with Mrs.
She was surprised at the ease and grace of these shabbily-dressed ladies, and the refinement of their surroundings the design of the furniture, the colour of curtains and carpet, the china, the books, the pictures, all of which bespoke tastes and habits not common in the parish. "I must apologise for this intrusion," she began nervously. "I have a most unpleasant task to perform.
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