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Our family have always been hot-headed and hot-tempered: if I told my grandmother at this minute how I am situated, I believe she would say, 'Why don't you go like a man and run off with the girl?" "Yes!" said Mabyn, quite delighted. "But suppose you've bothered and worried the girl until you feel ashamed of yourself, and she begs of you to leave her, aren't you bound in fair manliness to go?"
"I must say what I came for," she said. "Will you dismount?" he asked. Natalie shuddered. "Never, here!" she whispered. In a moment she had commanded herself again. "Please speak to him," she said. "Mabyn!" called Garth peremptorily. The man's lids parted. Natalie was directly in front of him.
Mabyn went up stairs as rapidly as was consistent with the safety of the flowers, and burst into her sister's room: "Oh, Wenna, look at this! Do you know who sent them? Did you ever see anything so lovely?" For a second the girl seemed almost frightened; then her eyes grew troubled and moist, and she turned her head away. Mabyn put them gently down and left the room without a word.
"You talk as if you would rather like to be run away with, Mabyn," she said. "But indeed, Mr. Trewhella, you must not think of coming with us. It is quite true what Mabyn says." And so they went out into the clear darkness together, and the door was shut, and they found themselves in the silent world of the night-time, with the white stars throbbing overhead.
All the nervousness had gone from him now: he was full of a strange sort of exultation the joy of a man who feels that the crisis in his life has come, and that he has the power and courage to face it. He heard them come up through the meadow to the stile: it was Wenna who was talking Mabyn was quite silent. They came along the road. "What is this carriage doing here?" Wenna said.
"Oh, Wenna, what have you said to him that you tremble so?" Mabyn asked. "I have bid him good-bye that is all." "Not for always?" "Yes, for always." "And he is going away again, then?" "Yes, as a young man should. Why should he stop here to make himself wretched over impossible fancies? He will go out into the world, and he has splendid health and spirits, and he will forget all this."
Then she set out again, impatient over these delays, and yet determined not to let her courage sink. "Land ahead yet?" called out Wenna. "Ay, ay, sir, and the Lizard on our lee. Wind south-south-west and the cargo shifting a point to the east. Hurrah!" "Mabyn, they'll hear you a mile off."
Garth, wary of the furtive gleam in the man's eye, sprang to his feet the instant they touched the island, and leaped out, careful never to turn his back. He forced Mabyn to retire a dozen paces, while he took the place he vacated in the stern; and then he ordered him to push off. At the prospect of being left alone, Mabyn's flesh failed him again.
Roscorla, as he went over the bridge again and went up to Basset Cottage, had lost all his assumed coolness of judgment and demeanor. He felt he had been tricked by Wenna and insulted by Mabyn, while his rival had established a hold which it would be in vain for him to seek to remove. He was in a passion of rage. He would not go near Wenna again.
Go along, Mabyn, and put your best hat on, and make yourself uncommonly smart, and you shall be allowed to sit next the driver that's me." And indeed he bundled the whole of them about until they were seated in the wagonette just as he had indicated; and away they went from the inn-door.
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