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Her manner tried to assert that she had not noticed him. She was almost by him. She gave a cough. He looked up. Would he know her? Would he remember asking no, directing my lord his secretary to write to her, and had he read what she wrote? He was looking at her. She dared a hurried little bow. He came to a stand-still again. "Yes, yes?" he said questioningly. "Madame Zabriska, Mr Disney."
"It's enough to make all the difference to you," said Neeld. "It makes the action you took in giving up your position unnecessary and wrong. It restores the state of things which existed " "Before you and Mina Zabriska came to Blent and brought Mr Cholderton?" He sat smiling a moment. "Forgive me; I'm very inhospitable," he said, and offered them cigarettes and whiskey.
In obedience to a look from Harry, Mina followed him from the room, and they passed downstairs and through the hall together in silence. He came with her as far as the bridge. There he paused. The scene they had left had apparently stirred no new emotion in him; but Mina Zabriska was trembling and moved to the heart. "Now you've seen her and before that you'd seen me.
"Why didn't you tell me that the other day? You gave me to understand that he only mentioned Heidelberg casually." "I may have expressed myself " "And did he mention us?" Neeld rose to his feet and took a turn up and down the room. "In my discretion I left the passage out. I can answer no questions about it. Please don't press me, Madame Zabriska."
Harry found the old gentleman's gaze fixed intently on him. "I beg your pardon for troubling you with all this, Mr Neeld," he said, relapsing rather into his defensive attitude. "Madame Zabriska knows my ways." "No, I don't think I know this new way of yours at all," she objected. "But I like it, Mr Tristram. I feel all you do. I have seen her." She turned to Neeld.
He bowed in courteous acceptance of her offer as he shook hands. "You see the foot-bridge over the river there? There's a gate at each end, but the gates are never locked, so you can reach us from the road that way if you're walking. If you want to drive, you must go a quarter of a mile higher up, just below the Pool. Good-by, Madame Zabriska." Mina watched him all the way down the hill.
"How?" asked Mina. Mrs Trumbler stared at her in surprised rebuke. "When I make a mistake, it will be time to ask questions," observed Miss S. with dignity. "For the present you may take what I say. I can wait to be proved right, Madame Zabriska." "I've no doubt you're right; only I thought Janie would have told me," said Mina; she had no wish to quarrel with Miss S.
"Oh, that's what you meant, Madame Zabriska? It wasn't the pleasure of my company?" "Do you know, I think you rather exaggerate the pleasure no, not the pleasure, I mean the honor of your company? You were looking as if you couldn't understand how anybody could want to talk to uncle when you were there. But he's better-looking than you are, and much more amusing."
"It's all a very curious little episode." "Yes. No more than that." "Yes, it is more," cried Mina. "Without it he'd never have married Cecily." "Romance, Madame Zabriska, romance!" Southend shook his head at her severely. Mina flinched a little under the opprobrium of the word. Yet why?
"As things stand, I can never go to Blent, I can go only to Blinkhampton." "What does little Mina Zabriska say to that?" "Oh, everything that comes into her head, I suppose, and very volubly." "I like her," said the old lady with emphasis. "Is there such a thing as an absolute liking, Lady Evenswood? What's pleasant at one time is abominable at another.
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