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Marcella's face showed her sympathy. They talked for half an hour, and at the end of it Mary flung her arms round her companion's neck. "There!" she said, "now we must not talk any more about it. I am glad I told you. It was a comfort.
But Marcella had never got used to them never, in all the three years she had lived with her aunt. They flicked on the raw as keenly as ever. This morning it seemed unbearable. It took every atom of Marcella's self-control to keep her from voicing her resentful thoughts. It was only for Patty's sake that she was able to restrain herself.
Everybody says his position in Parliament now isn't worth a straw that he must resign which is delightful, of course, for his wife. And I saw it all from the beginning I understood exactly what you wanted to do at Castle Luton only I couldn't believe then I was only six weeks married " A wave of excitement and self-pity swept over her. She broke off with a sob. Marcella's heart was wrung.
Why shouldn't someone whom I wish well benefit by it? Godwin was not so much surprised as disconcerted. He knew that Marcella's nature was of large mould, and that whether she acted for good or evil its promptings would be anything but commonplace.
Wharton returned the look with one of quiet scrutiny the scrutiny of the doctor or the philosopher. On Marcella's quick sense the contrast of the two heads impressed itself the delicate youth of Wharton's with its clustering curls the sunken contours and the helpless suffering of the other. Then Wharton kissed the little fellow, put his animals carefully on to a chair beside him, and set him down.
I suppose I offended him by what I said of Marcella's whims, and the risk of letting her control so much money at her age, and with her ideas. You never saw such an air! all very quiet, of course. He buttoned his coat and got up to go, as though I were no more worth considering than the table. Neither he nor his precious grandfather need alarm themselves: I shan't trouble them as a visitor.
"He said he wished you to feel perfectly free to live your own life, and to follow out your own projects. Oh, for a person of projects, my dear, it is not so much. You will do well to husband it. Keep it for yourself. Get what you want out of it: not what other people want." Again Marcella's attention missed the note of agitation in her mother's sharp manner.
"One moment!" said Raeburn, smiling, "and I will take you in pursuit. She has only gone into the tea-room." His hand touched Marcella's. "Just a little better," he said, with a sudden change of look, in answer to Lady Winterbourne's question. "The account to-night is certainly brighter. They begged me not to come, or I should have been off some days ago.
A charming little ghost of a smile crossed Marcella's white lips. "Probably Betty knows her business," she said; "if she's quite unmanageable, send her to me." In his general turmoil of spirits the boy caught her hand and kissed it would have liked, indeed, to kiss her and all the world. But she laughed, and sent him away, and with a sly, lingering look at her he departed.
Aldous declared he didn't dance, and she wouldn't have a word of it. And presently she got to all her tricks, skirt-dancing and the rest of it and of course the evening went like smoke." Marcella's eyes, unusually wide open, were somewhat intently fixed on the speaker. "And Mr. Raeburn liked it?" she asked in a tone that sounded incredulous. "Didn't he just?
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