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You may tell Lady Evenswood what I've said and she'll tell you what I mean." "Oh, but please " "If you stop me any longer, I shall send you to the Tower. Tell Lady Evenswood and Southend. If I didn't do my business better than you do yours !" He shrugged his shoulders with a good-natured rudeness. "Good-night," he said again, and this time Mina dared not stop him.
Blinkhampton was not far enough away; it rather threw him with people who belonged to the old life than parted him from them. He was weak himself too; while the people were at hand, he would seek them, as he had sought Lady Evenswood.
Mina was not shy with them any more; she had suffered worse. They glanced at one another. "It was you, my dear. He'd have been more difficult with us," said Lady Evenswood. "You interested him," Southend assured her. "Yes, if anything's been done, you've done it." They seemed quite sincere. That feeling of being on her head instead of her heels came over Mina again.
He would have something to tell Lady Evenswood herself too. He quite forgot his curry and Colonel Wilmot Edge, who derived his importance from it. Nothing was settled; there were only suggestions for Harry to think over. But he was left quite clear that everything depended on himself alone, that he had only to will and to work, and a career of prosperous activity was before him.
"You must bring Lady Tristram to see me," said Lady Evenswood. "Cecily? Oh well, I'll try." Lady Evenswood smiled and Southend laughed outright. It was not quite the way in which Lady Evenswood's invitations were generally received. But neither of them liked Mina less. It was something to go back to the tiny house between the King's and Fulham Road with the record of such adventures as these.
After all, would you have the country governed by Addie Tristram's son?" "I suppose it would be rather risky," said the Imp reluctantly. But she cheered up directly on the strength of an obvious thought. "There are much more interesting things than politics," she said. "And how is Cecily?" asked Lady Evenswood. "Oh, she's just adorable and Mrs Iver's got her a very good housekeeper."
Above all, she could be elusively lucid and make herself understood without any bluntness of statement. "If it could be so managed that the whole miserable accident should be blotted out and forgotten!" she exclaimed, as though she implored a personal favor. "How can that be?" asked Harry. "I was in, and I am out, Lady Evenswood." "You're out, and your cousin's in, yes."
To make such an opportunity for her was too hazardous an experiment; it might have turned out well one could never tell with Robert but on the whole it was not to be risked. What Lady Evenswood would not venture, fortune dared.
Thus thinking of her only as she affected him, he remained at heart insensible to the aspect of the case which Lady Evenswood had commended to his notice. Cecily's possible unhappiness did not come home to him. After all, she had everything and he nothing and even he was not insupportably unhappy.
"I dare say Lady Tristram was momentarily excited," he remarked to Mina, "and I think too that she exaggerates what Harry feels. As far as I've seen him, he's by no means miserable." "Well, she is anyhow," said Mina. "And you won't convince her that he isn't." She turned to Lady Evenswood. "Is there nothing to be done? You see it's all being wasted." "All being wasted?" "Yes, Blent and all of it.
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