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"He detests you," Lady Mallowe went on. "He will not hear of your living with us or even near us. He says you are old enough to take care of yourself. Take my advice. I am doing you a good turn in giving it. This New York newsboy is mad over you. If he hadn't been we should have been bundled out of the house before this.
"Really, Emily," said Lady Maria, "I don't know how I have done this thing for forty years without you. I must always have you at Mallowe for the treat." Emily was of the genial nature which rejoices upon even small occasions, and is invariably stimulated to pleasure by the festivities of others. The festal atmosphere was a delight to her.
When they reached Mallowe, and were led out upon the lawn, where the tea was being served under embowering trees, they found a group of guests eating little hot cakes and holding teacups in their hands.
One feels that one scarcely deserves it." "Mr.Temple Barholm seems in better spirits," Lady Mallowe said to Captain Palliser as they walked on the terrace in the starlight dusk after dinner. Captain Palliser took his cigar from his mouth and looked at the glowing end of it. "Has it struck you that he has been in low spirits?" he inquired speculatively.
She turned her back on her and walked out of the room. Shortly afterward Lady Mallowe saw her walking down the avenue in the rain, which was beginning to fall. She had left the house because she dared not stay in it.
Tembarom had looked deeply interested from the first, but at her last words a new alertness added itself. "Did you say Lady Joan? " he asked. " Who was Lady Joan?" "She was the girl he was so much in love with. Her name was Lady Joan Fayre." "Was she the daughter of the Countess of Mallowe?" "Yes. Have you heard of her?"
Franklin called this afternoon, and while he was here with me Mr. Rockamore and Mr. Mallowe came, but I could not see them. There is something I feel I must talk over with you." She hung up the receiver with a little sigh, and for the first time in days a faint suspicion of a smile lightened her face.
"I am sorry it has happened, however," he said, "not only because one does not wish to leave Detchworth, but because I shall miss Lady Mallowe and Lady Joan, who are to be at Asshawe Holt next week. I particularly wanted to see them." Miss Alicia glanced at Tembarom to see what he would do. He spoke before he could catch her glance.
"Until your proper guardian is appointed by the courts," Mallowe cried, "you are nominally under my care, mine and others of your father's closest associates. This is a delicate matter to discuss now, Mr. Blaine," he added, in calmer tones, turning to the detective, "but since this seems to be a business interview, we must touch upon the question of finances.
"They are devilish," exclaimed her mother." She treads him in the mire and sails about professing to be conducting herself flawlessly. She is too clever for me," she added with bitterness. Palliser laughed softly. "But very often you have been too clever for her," he suggested. "For my part, I don't quite see how you got her here." Lady Mallowe became not almost, but entirely, candid.
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