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They smoked silently for a moment Verisschenzko's Calmuck face fixed and inscrutable and Denzil's debonnaire English one usually grave. "Some one told me that your friend, Madame Boleski, was having a tremendous success in London. I wish I could have got leave, I should like to have seen the whole thing." "Harietta is enjoying her luck-moment; she is in her zenith.
Mercifully John would decide the matter it was not his doing that he and Amaryllis had met. John caught sight of the three as he came along the balcony from the telephone, so that he had time to take in the situation; he saw that the meeting was quite imprevu, and he had, of course, no choice but to accept Verisschenzko's suggestion with a show of grace.
What did he really mean to her, denuded of the glamour with which she herself had surrounded him? Practically nothing at all. She was quite aware that her state of being was rendering all her mental and emotional faculties particularly sensitive, and she did her utmost to remember all Verisschenzko's counsel to discipline herself and remain serene.
But where were his host and hostess he must bid them farewell. John Ardayre was valsing with Lady Avonwier and Harietta Boleski undulated in the arms of the tall German who had come with the party from Broomgrove but Amaryllis for the moment was absent from the room. "If I could only know who the beast is before I go, and where she has met him previously!" Verisschenzko's thoughts ran.
She remembered Verisschenzko's words upon the occasions when he had spoken to her about it, and of her duties towards it, and how she must uphold it. She particularly remembered that which he had said when they walked by the lake, and he had seemed to be transmitting some message to her, which she had not understood at the time.
You are deeply to be congratulated that you are going to have a baby, do you not think so?" "Of course I do " and Amaryllis controlled her uneasy bashfulness. She really wished to talk to her friend. "Who told you about it?" she asked. "Denzil." Amaryllis drew in her breath suddenly. Verisschenzko's eyes were looking her through and through. "Denzil ?"
But this attitude which men take up of neglecting a woman and then expecting her to be faithful still is quite ridiculous, and without logic; they are as usual fogged by convention and can't see straight." Verisschenzko's rough voice was keen compelling. Denzil smiled. "Another of your windmills to fight!" "I am always fighting convention and shams.
"Not for an instant " and suddenly Verisschenzko's yellow-green eyes flashed fire and his face grew transfigured with fierce hate. "You do not know the affection I had for Stanislass from my boyhood he was my leader, my ideal. No paltry aims a great pioneer of freedom on the sanest lines.
Russia was moving forward, but Verisschenzko did not appear to be very optimistic in spite of this. There were things in his country, he told Amaryllis, which might handicap the fighting. Stanislass Boleski looked extremely depressed. He had a hang-dog, strained mien and Verisschenzko's contemptuously friendly attitude towards him wounded him deeply.
No, say I am dining early for the theatre but to-morrow at five." The maid inclined her head and left the room silently, carrying Fou-Chow, but as she did so her eyes met Verisschenzko's and their expression suggested to him several things: "Marie loves the dog so she hates Harietta. Good we shall see."
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