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He could make a great show of industry with books and foolscap, and nobody pryed too closely into the result. Ida was not left long in ignorance as to the friendly feelings of those she had left behind at Kingthorpe.
Kingthorpe suited him admirably. It was a parish rich in sweet associations. The present Vicar was a good, easy-going man, a High Churchman of the old school rather than the new, yet able to sympathize with men of more advanced opinions and fiercer energies.
She encouraged him, fooled him to the top of his bent, and then flung him over directly she found he was not the rich Mr. Wendover. He has never been to Kingthorpe since. That would show how deeply he was wounded. 'The fooling was not all on her side, said Mr. Wendover. 'She had a right to resent the trick that had been played upon her.
But her summer holidays for the last three years had been all Kingthorpe, and Miss Rylance detested the picturesque village, the busy duck-pond, the insignificant hills, which nobody had ever heard of, and the monotonous sequence of events.
Ida Palliser sat silent in her corner of the large landau which was taking Miss Wendover and her schoolfellows from Winchester station to Kingthorpe. Miss Rylance had accepted a seat in the Wendover landau at her father's desire; but she would have preferred to have had her own smart little pony-carriage to meet her at the station.
'Every word is interesting to me, said Ida, with a look that told him she was not one of those young ladies who enjoy a little good-natured ridicule of their nearest and dearest. 'Is it long since you left Kingthorpe? 'Not four-and-twenty hours.
'I hope, now that the ice has been broken, that we are not going to be strangers any more, said Vernon, pleasantly. 'To think that you should be such a near neighbour of mine, and that I should know nothing about it! You have been at Kingthorpe since last November, you say? How long are you going to stay there?
'But, dear mamma, I know you can't afford it. 'I will afford it, Ida. You will have to go to church at Kingthorpe' Mrs. Palliser regarded church-going as an oppressive condition of prosperous respectability. One of the few privileges of being hard up and quite out of society was that one need not go to church 'and I should like you to appear like a lady.
'Did you stay at The Knoll all the time, she inquired, her thoughts having flown back to Kingthorpe; 'or at the Abbey? 'At The Knoll. It is ever so much livelier, and my cousins like to have me with them. 'Naturally. But I wonder you did not prefer living in that lovely old house of yours. To occupy it must seem like living in the Middle Ages. 'Uncommonly.
'What is the meaning of this preface? 'Only that I must ask you to let me leave you. 'Leave me! Oh, you want a holiday, I suppose? that is natural enough. We needn't be tragic about that. You want to go over to Dieppe to see your people? 'I want to go away from Kingthorpe for ever. 'For ever?
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