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It might be graceful in your ladyship to follow my example." Mentally Mr. Caryll observed that it is unwise to rouge so heavily as did Lady Ostermore when prone to anger and to paling under it. The false color looks so very false on such occasions. Her ladyship struck the ground with her cane. "For what have I to thank her, sir? Will you tell me that, you who seem so very well informed."
Caryll hailed a chair, and had himself carried to his lodging in Old Palace Yard, where Leduc awaited him. As his bearers swung briskly along, Mr. Caryll sat back and gave himself up to thought. Lord Ostermore interested him vastly.
Caryll blinked foolishly. "My wits are very dull, I fear," said he. "I still cannot understand." "Then I'll make it all clear to you," said his lordship. Leduc appeared at the arbor entrance. "What now?" asked Mr. Caryll. "Her ladyship is approaching, sir," answered Leduc the vigilant. Lord Ostermore and Mr.
How should he stand as judge between Mistress Winthrop towards whom, as we have seen, he had a kindness and his wife, whom he hated, yet towards whom he would not be disloyal? He wished the subject dropped, since, did he ask the obvious question in what my Lady Ostermore could have been the cause of Hortensia's flight he would provoke, he knew, a storm of censure from his wife.
"'Twas to save her from you," Ostermore explained, entirely unnecessarily. "And you thought to to By God! sir, I marvel you have the courage to confront me. I marvel!" "Take me away, my lord," Hortensia begged him, touching his arm. "Aye, we were best away," said the earl, drawing her to him. Then he flung a hand out at Rotherby in a gesture of repudiation, of anathema.
"What are you doing?" she cried, seeking at last to arouse him from the spell under which he appeared to have fallen. "Those letters " "I must see Lord Ostermore," he answered wildly, and made for the door, reeling like a drunkard in his walk.
Ostermore, despite the havoc suffered by his fortunes, kept an excellent table and a clever cook, and Mr. Caryll was glad to discover in his sire this one commendable trait. The conversation was desultory throughout the repast; but when the cloth was raised and the table cleared of all but the dishes of fruit and the decanters of Oporto, Canary and Madeira, there came a moment of expansion. Mr.
Now, amongst these letters delivered to me unsealed is one to my Lord Ostermore, making him certain advantageous proposals which he is sure to accept if his circumstances be as crippled as I am given to understand.
Her eyes flamed, her cheeks were scarlet. "God help me for a fool, my lord, to have put my faith in that man! Oh!" she choked. "The shame the burning shame of it! I would I had a brother to punish him!" Lord Ostermore was crimson, too, with indignation. Mr. Caryll was relieved to see that he was capable of so much emotion. "Did I not warn you against him, Hortensia?" said he.
Caryll to the little white and gold withdrawing-room that was Hortensia's. There, in the little time that he waited, he revolved the situation as it now stood, and the temptation that had been with him for the past three days rose up now with a greater vigor. Should Lord Ostermore die, Temptation argued, he need no longer hesitate.
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