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Of course, knowing Jevons as I do now, I have sometimes fancied his talk about cowardice may have been mere bravado, the risk he took with Reggie. But here again I am not quite sure. I don't really know. I am, however, entirely enlightened as to the game Viola played with me that night. Jevons had stayed till half-past six. He had talked for two hours and a half.
Moreover, he added, his character was not cleared up as much as was even possible. He had told Lord Erymanth the entire truth, and had been believed, but it was quite probable that even that truth might divide for ever between him and Viola, and those other stories of the Stympsons both cousins had, of course, flatly denied, but had never been able otherwise to confute.
"It will not cost me a single friend, Viola," remarked Rachel grimly. "I have none to lose. But with you it will be different." "We don't have to stay in the old town," said Viola bravely. "The world is large. We can move on. Just as we used to before we came here to live. Always moving on, we were." Rachel shook her head. They were at the bottom of the stairs. "I will not move on.
I'll go down and try to arrange the matter, and report what he says." "I don't care what he says, I'm going," Viola repeated. "I'm going if he locks us out. I wish he would." Pratt was resentful at once. "I don't want her to go to-night. I have some people coming in to see her. I don't want them disappointed; she must remain."
"Viola," Ephraim continued, as he bent his head down to the girl's face, "I have vowed to myself that whenever he ... our father ... should return, I would give our little bird its freedom. It shall be free, free as he will be." "Ephraim!" "He is coming he is already on his way home." Viola flung her arms round her brother's neck.
While at work there, I heard of a vacant position in the household of General Lewis Ruffner, the owner of the salt-furnace and coal-mine. Mrs. Viola Ruffner, the wife of General Ruffner, was a "Yankee" woman from Vermont. Mrs. Ruffner had a reputation all through the vicinity for being very strict with her servants, and especially with the boys who tried to serve her.
I pressed him to promise me that he would return and settle here, but though he said he would come back, to settling at home he answered, "That depends;" and though I could not see, I knew he was biting his moustache, and guessed, poor dear fellow, that it depended on how far he should be able to endure the sight of Eustace and Viola married.
If I was going to win this game I was going to win it hands over, not just to sneak in on a doubtful point. I wanted Viola to know what she was doing. I wanted her to see exactly what she was giving up if she married me to go home and see it all over again in case she had forgotten. "And of course I was thinking of myself too. I'm an egoist.
"I wonder I wonder," mused the colonel, and so wondering, and with fitful dreams attending his slumbers, he passed the night. Jean Forette drove the colonel and Viola to the office. They arrived rather early. In fact LeGrand Blossom was not yet in, and when he did enter, a few minutes later, he was plainly surprised to see them.
When it came to dining at our small round table we saw how badly we had erred in not asking anybody else but Viola and Jimmy. Reggie persisted in talking to Viola like a well-bred stranger. He persisted in ignoring Jevons. And Jimmy retaliated by ignoring him. There was nothing else for him to do. Only it wasn't one of the things he did well.
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