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Together with this there was incessant restlessness; he appeared perpetually on the look-out, as though dreading discovery; and he alternated between exultant nods of his head, with knowing winks at vacancy, and sudden sharp furtive glances at his companion. Changed as Sir Lionel's mood was, it can hardly be said that the change was for the better.
Her cheeks were flushed with a rich bloom the warm flush of excitement and the consciousness of success. Lionel's attention on the previous evening had seemed to her unmistakeable; and again this morning she saw admiration, if not a warmer feeling, in his gaze. "And so you really mean to follow the hounds, Miss Graham?" said Mrs. Mordaunt, with something like a shudder.
Lionel's cheek turned white with the taunt the words might be supposed to imply. He held her two hands in his, pressing them nervously. "You shall not force me to quarrel with you, Sibylla," he continued, with emotion. "I have almost registered a vow that no offensive word or conduct on your part shall make me forget myself for a moment; or render me other than an ever considerate, tender husband.
I was afraid it was Dick, after all, as he is horribly clever about finding out where one has gone so detectivey of him! but in another second I smelt Sir Lionel's kind of cigarette smoke. It would make me think of him if it were a hundred years from now! Still, Dick borrows his cigarettes often, as he says they're too expensive to buy, so I wasn't safe.
We continued to be very gay all dinner-time. After dinner we had some music, and the Judge was just pressing me to sing, when Lionel's servant came into the room, having hurried down from London, in pursuit of his master, in consequence of the sudden arrival of a large package of letters from Paris, endorsed "immediate, and to be delivered with all speed."
But where can she be all this time, I wonder, and with whom? so breaking in upon Lionel's reverie, she repeated her question of, "Where and with whom is Vaura? she has missed two or three dances." "Everly was the happy man not two minutes ago," he said. "That bird of passage; 'tis a wonder she wastes her sweetness upon him." "Poor Everly!
The player on Lionel's left bet an humble two shillings. The next player simply came in. So did the third who was Mr. Percival Miles. Likewise the dealer; in fact, they were all prepared to pay that modest sum to inspect the age's hand. But Lionel wanted a higher price for that privilege. "I'm coming in with the little two shillings," said he, "and I will raise you a sovereign."
This is the sole use to which, without your consent, we have presumed to put the secret we have learned. Do you pardon George now?" Waife's lips murmured inaudibly, but his face grew very bright; and as it was raised upwards, Lionel's ear caught the whisper of a name it was not Jasper, it was "Lizzy."
I am justified now in all the pains I took to secure Lionel's marriage in the cunning cruelty of my letter to George! Know, Lady Montfort, that if Lionel had sacrificed his happiness to respect for Guy's ancestor-worship, Guy Darrell would have held himself bound in honour never to marry again.
It had been Sir Lionel's cue this evening to select Miss Todd for his special attentions; but he had found Miss Todd at the present moment to be too much a public character for his purposes. She had a sort of way of speaking to all her guests at once, which had doubtless on the whole an extremely hilarious effect, but which was not flattering to the amour propre of a special admirer.
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