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"We've been very social here, haven't we, Miss Amelia?" continued Mrs Lupex. "Only now and then a cloud comes across the heavens, and the lights at the banquet are darkened." Then she put her handkerchief up to her eyes, sobbing deeply, and they all knew that she was again alluding to the sins of her husband.
There were occasions, however, on which Mrs Lupex and Miss Roper were by no means so gracious to each other. "Does Lupex like caps?" asked Cradell. "If I wore a plumed helmet on my head, it's my belief he wouldn't know the difference; nor yet if I had got no head at all. That's what comes of getting married.
People are so censorious; ain't they, Miss Spruce? Mr Eames shall do it; and everybody knows that that will be quite safe. Won't it, Miss Amelia?" "Quite, I should think," said Amelia. And Mrs Lupex knew that she was not to look for an ally in that quarter on the present occasion. Eames got up to take the shawl, and Mrs Lupex went on. "And didn't Orson dine at home?
But one may say that no single hour of happiness could accrue to him from his intimacy with Mrs Lupex. He felt for her no love. He was afraid of her, and, in many respects, disliked her. But to him, in his moth-like weakness, ignorance, and blindness, it seemed to be a great thing that he should be allowed to fly near the candle.
And, Mr Eames, I wonder at you, too, in your position! Lupex, come upstairs at once." She then stepped into the room and secured the gin-bottle. "Oh, Mr Cradell, do come here," said Amelia, in her liveliest tone, as soon as the men made their appearance above. "I've been waiting for you this half-hour. I've got such a puzzle for you."
If I'd got such a chance as that when I was young, I should never have been doing jobs of scene-painting at the minor theatres at so much a square yard. You've got the chance now, but I never had it." Whereupon Mr Lupex finished his first measure of gin-and-water.
Whereupon Mrs Lupex, having found a sofa convenient for the service, betook herself to hysterics. There for the moment we will leave her, hoping that poor Mrs Roper was not kept late out of her bed. "What a deuce of a mess Eames will make of it if he marries that girl!" Such was Cradell's reflection as he betook himself to his own room.
"What she owes is no affair of yours." "But it's an affair of mine, when I'm insulted by such a creature as that." "Creature!" said Mrs Lupex. "I'd like to know which is most like a creature! But I'll tell you what it is, Amelia Roper " Here, however, her eloquence was stopped, for Amelia had disappeared through the door, having been pushed out of the room by her brother.
"It would be difficult to make you ashamed of anything, I believe." "But let me tell you this, Mrs Lupex, you're not going to destroy the respectability of this house by your goings on." "It was a bad day for me when I let Lupex bring me into it." "Then pay your bill, and walk out of it," said Amelia, waving her hand towards the door. "I'll undertake to say there shan't be any notice required.
"Only I didn't know that you two were quite That is, when last I heard about it, I fancied But if the quarrel's made up, there's nobody more rejoiced than I am." "The quarrel is made up," said Cradell. "If Mrs Lupex is satisfied, I'm sure I am," said Amelia. "Mr Lupex is satisfied," said Mrs Lupex; "and let me tell you, my dear, seeing that you are expecting to get married yourself "
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