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"Toni, what do you mean?" "I mean that I understand now. Lady Saxonby was the woman you were to have married. She is very beautiful," said Toni simply. "And she would have been the right mistress for Greenriver. I can't understand how it was you married me. Eva said when we were driving home that it must have been pique.
"You apologize, then?" "Why certainly, Mr. Wrenn. Let me explain " "Oh, don't explain," snortled Miss Saxonby. "Yes!" from Mr. Bancock Binch, "explanations are so conventional, old chap." Do you see them? Mr.
Well, it seems he had a motor smash, knocked himself up and had to go away for a time; and whether, as I have been told, she was glad of the excuse to break her promise, or whether there was some other reason, I don't know, but anyhow she threw him over and married Lord Saxonby without telling her first fiancé a word about it." "And he took it to heart?" Mrs.
"But we just sat down and watched, and everything would have been all right if Lady Martin hadn't interfered." "What did she do?" "She had a woman with her Lady Saxonby, someone called her and she heard me addressed as Mrs. Rose, and turned to me at once and asked me if I were your wife." "She did? By Jove!" Owen guessed that Vivian's curiosity had nerved her to the step. "Yes.
I was well out of it, since she was a woman of that kind." "Oh, I don't mind now," said Toni, with a faint smile. "I did at first. When Lady Martin and Mrs. Madgwick said it, last summer, I thought my heart would break; but I suppose I got used to the idea, and when I saw Lady Saxonby to-day I knew it was just one of the things that no one can help." Owen, not understanding her, only stared.
Rose knows all the time that he ought not to have married you just to get even with that horrid Saxonby woman, and anyhow you're not the least bit in the world suited to one another." Toni was very pale. "You don't think so?" "I'm sure of it." Eva threw away the cigarette she held and sat upright.
Henceforth no such person as Miss Rees I mean Lady Saxonby exists for me; and if you'll remember that it will make things easier for us both." "Very well, Owen." Barry felt emboldened to light a cigarette; and then, with a tactlessness born of mental discomfort, he asked a blundering question. "What shall you do now, old man? Have another shot at big game for a bit, or what?"
"But unless I'm a conceited fool I believe I have a sporting chance at least and I'd like to show Lady Saxonby she's not the only woman in the world for me!"
"Then Lady Saxonby looked straight at me and asked me to give you a message." "Did she?" Owen was astonished. "What was it?" "She asked me to say that she hoped you had forgiven her and were as happy as she is." "Gad, what impertinence!" He flushed darkly. "She had no right to send me such a message; it was nothing but a piece of unwarranted presumption on her part." "Was it?"
But then Eva jumped up and said very quickly that the woman who had jilted an honourable man ought to be ashamed of sending such a message through that man's wife and when I said something she told me that Lady Saxonby was the woman who threw you over when you came home, for all the world to see."
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