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You aren't used to driving about in evening dress and we've a long run before us. And how I have been longing for it all the evening, haven't you? I didn't know how to sit through that confounded play. Yes, you can take in Selincourt and Laura but you can't take me in. I know you must have hated it as much as I did. But it's all right now."
By the way, my men are behind with the mail this time, a week late, and I am still uncertain whether or no we shall have to go down to Montreal for the winter," Mr. Selincourt said, as he helped Katherine to put cups and saucers on the table. "If they had come in time, would you have left by this boat?" Katherine asked.
Selincourt, adding with a laugh: "unless indeed you are beginning to repent, in which case it is not too late to change your mind and go back to Miss Griffith." "Thank you! I never change my mind unless it is about the weather, and I wouldn't turn back on this journey on any account whatever." "Not if I turned back myself?" he enquired, as they went on board the boat.
"That is what it looks like," said Mr. Selincourt, with a sudden great relief coming into his tone. Then he stripped off his jacket to wrap his daughter in: the other men stripped off their jackets also, the drenching rain wetting them to the skin in about two minutes; but Mary must be wrapped as warmly as possible, and some kind of a litter had to be improvised in which to carry her.
Stafford had gone out after an early lunch to take a wedding in Countisford, while Val had been obliged to ride over to a neighbouring farm. From a hint let fall during the night he was aware that no more than the most laconic wire would be needed, but he fretted under the delay, which meant that Selincourt could not arrive before six o'clock.
"That'll do," said Lawrence, raising his hand. "Your wife is innocent. Send any one you like to the hotel private detective if you like and find out what rooms Miss Stafford and Laura had, or whether Selincourt and I stayed five minutes in the place after the ladies went upstairs." "So Laura said this morning." "There's no loophole for suspicion.
"An old flame," he whispered to Laura, not dreaming that Isabel would understand even if she heard. "What's an old flame?" asked Isabel, examining him with her brilliant eyes. "Feuerzauber," said Selincourt readily. "It means fire spell. It's often played between the acts." "Lucian, Lucian!" said his sister laughing. "I don't know much about music," said Isabel. "Was it well played?" "Ah!
Born and reared in the country, though young and untrained, Val brought to his job a wide casual knowledge of local conditions and a natural head for business, and was only too glad to squire Laura in the hunting field. For Laura must hunt: as Laura Selincourt she had hunted whenever she was offered a mount, and she was to go on doing as she had always done.
Selincourt told me to lodge, if possible, in the abode of Oily Dave." "But you will not go back? Mr. Selincourt would not expect it of you," she said, a swift terror leaping into her eyes. "No, I shall not reside under the roof of Oily Dave any longer," he answered. "But I shall remind him of that locked door, and various other things, some day when it suits me." "What are you doing?
I can scarcely look my father in the face, and when he pities me for having been in such sore straits I feel like sinking through the couch from very shame." "Why don't you tell Mr. Selincourt then?" asked Katherine bluntly. "He would understand how panic had unnerved you, and certainly he would not judge you harshly." "I can't tell him; I am not brave enough.
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