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"A carriage in front of my house at this time of night!" thought Dion, as he got out and paid the man. He looked at the coachman and at the solemn brown horse between the shafts, and instantly realized that this was the carriage of a doctor. "Rosamund!" With a thrill of anxiety, a clutch at his heart, he thrust his latchkey into the door. It stuck; he could not turn it.
Crofton had issued a sort of general invitation to supper to the young people of Old Place an invitation finally accepted, at Betty's suggestion, by Godfrey Radmore and Rosamund. Janet admitted to herself that they did owe Mrs. Crofton some civility.
So in talk and tea drinking an hour slipped away; and then the perruquier rose and bid Rosamund get her hood and come; for it was high time to fetch her aunt, and go back to Highgate. Tom would have liked to accompany them once more, but some instinct restrained him from making the offer.
Rosamund walked with Mr. Dickinson on one side of her and the Dean of Welsley and Mrs.
"Be assured," Dominey answered, "that if they come I shall know how to deal with them." Dominey found Rosamund and Doctor Harrison, who had walked over from the village, lingering on the terrace. He welcomed the latter warmly. "You are a godsend, Doctor," he declared. "I have been obliged to leave my port untasted for want of a companion. You will excuse us for a moment Rosamund?"
Her companion had given her another companion. In the old gray Cathedral, full of the silent voices of men who had prayed and been gathered to their rest long since, Rosamund looked down the way of happiness, and she could not see its end. The five minutes' bell stopped and Robin sat up very straight in the pew. The Bishop's wife proceeded to her stall with a friend.
He was not sorry, indeed, he was almost actively glad, for he was quite sure Rosamund had no wish to make Mrs. Clarke's acquaintance. At the beginning of September, however, when he had just come back to work after a month in camp which had hardened him and made him as brown as a berry, he received the following note: "CLARIDGE'S HOTEL, 2 September, 1897 "DEAR Mr.
Smith has appeared as an old schoolfellow of yours. Mark my words, if he's proved guilty, the Organs of Public Opinion will say you introduced him. If he's proved innocent, they will say you helped to collar him. Rosamund, my dear, suppose I am right or wrong. If he's proved guilty, they'll say you engaged your companion to him. If he's proved innocent, they'll print that telegram.
Miss Denham could interpret looks, and said, 'Dr. Shrapnel is very fond of those verses. Rosamund's astonishment caused her to say, 'Are they his own? a piece of satiric innocency at which Miss Denham laughed softly as she answered, 'No. Rosamund pleaded that she had not heard them with any distinctness. 'Are they written by the gentleman at his side? 'Mr. Lydiard? No.
'All the men of that family are heartless, and he is a man of wood, my dear, and a bad man, the old lady said. 'He should have kept you at school, and sent you to college. You want reading and teaching and talking to. Such a house as that is should never be a home for you. She hinted at Rosamund.
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