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Here, too, was a miniature fair, the path being lined by itinerant temptations. There was brisk traffic in toffy, and gray peas and monkey-nuts, and the crowd was swollen by anxious parents seeing tiny or truant offspring safe within the school-gates.
'I wish we hadn't asked Peter to stay and amuse Toffy! said Jane, with compunction. There was a tired white look on Mrs. Ogilvie's face, and an appearance of fatigue in her movements which neither her supreme art of dressing nor the careful manipulation of light in the room wholly concealed. 'Ah, now you are beginning to repent! said Mrs. Ogilvie.
There is nothing, believe me. It is the child, the little Zoe but a maid of charm and kindness. She brings me cakes and the toffy made by her own hands; and if I go to the Manor Cartier, as I often do, it is to be polite and neighbourly. If Madame says things to me, and if I see what I see, and hear what I hear, it is no crime; it is no misdemeanour; it is within the law the perfect law."
He had been worried and unsettled all day, and he believed that it would be a good thing to let off steam by a ride over the camp; besides which, Toffy's letters had taken a good two hours to write, and Peter guessed they were important. He could easily overtake Purvis with them before he should reach La Dorada. 'I 'll sit up and trim the lamp like a faithful wife, until you return, said Toffy.
Toffy had been his fag at Eton, and Peter had got into the habit of taking care of him. He knew his friend's constitution better than most people did, and he expended much affection upon him, and endeavoured without any success to make him take care of himself. 'Why didn't you sleep in your bed like a Christian? he demanded sternly.
After my first accounts to him he had persisted in referring to it as a tuck-shop, a sort of place where schoolboys would exchange their halfpence for toffy, sweet-cakes, and marbles. Now he demanded to be shown the premises and was at once duly impressed both with their quiet elegance and my own business acumen.
'It's going to be a bitter cold night, he said. 'I think I will just look in at your room again, and see if they have made up the fire properly. He returned to the drawing-room and took up two or three newspapers in turn and laid them down again, while Toffy watched him gravely. 'I 've had a bit of a jar lately, he said at last, taking up his stand with his back to the fire near the sofa.
It was with an effort that Peter said, before they parted for the night, 'Whatever happens, we mean to try to be married when I come back. Jane is awfully plucky about it, but this confounded Court of Chancery does not seem to regard me with much favour at present. 'It's only for a year, said Toffy hopefully.
He advised Toffy to say, if he were asked, that Sir John Falconer was making inquiries, and that for the present they themselves were not going to move in the matter. Toffy and Ross both thought that they had gone too far to make such an attitude possible. 'What harm can it do to find out what he knows? Ross said more than once. But Peter still held back.
Once or twice the breeze carried the intoxicating smell of flowers from the river-bank. It was difficult for Toffy, although he had been down the river many times, to know exactly his bearings. They passed a little settlement on their starboard hand, and saw a few lights burning in the houses. 'That must be Lara's house, said Peter.
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