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But if she was unhappy, no sign of it reached my eyes. Only her mother, who sometimes raised her eyes and calmly regarded her daughter, had an inkling of what was in Una's heart. Jerry went no more to the telephone. I kept an eye on it and I know. And when his car went out, Una or Jack went with him. Three days passed with no telephone calls from Briar Hills.
I, The Journals of Captain R. F. Scott, Rn., C. V. O., p. 417. Tertullian: De Virginibus Velandis, Cap. I "Regula quidem fidei una omnino est, sola immobilis et irreformabilis." The Papal Syllabus of Errors, A. D. 1864, Sec. 1, 5. Exodus 6:3; Chap. 19. Exodus 33:22-23. Numbers 21:14. Exodus 15:3. Judges 11:24. I Samuel 26:19. II Kings 5:17. Jeremiah 23:24. Psalm 96:5.
Una carried some fine, spiritual strength away from her secret shrine. She slept peacefully that night with the tear stains still glistening on her sweet, serious, little face. The next afternoon she put on her best dress and hat. They were shabby enough. Every other little girl in the Glen had new clothes that summer except Faith and Una.
I think he understood Jerry now as well as I did. "Violence," he blurted out. "Ah! Then I'm not a fool. You agree with me." "I'm glad I'm not in Lloyd's shoes, that's all." We resumed our walk, turning back toward the Manor, and I told him of how matters stood with Jerry and Una. He had not met her, but he knew her history and was, I think, willing to accept her upon her face value.
Una had regarded Miss Moynihan as thick and stupid, but not when she had thought of falling in love with Charlie Martindale at a dance at Panama, not in her most fervid hours of comforting her mother, had she been so closely in sympathy with any human being as she was with Miss Moynihan when they went over and over the problems of office politics, office favorites, office rules, office customs.
Week after week glided by until the Christmas holidays drew near, and pale, silent, little Una seemed turned into a different child. In vain had the children begged for her to spend Christmas Day with them at the vicarage. "My daughter does not visit," Monsieur Gen had replied; and the children felt that there was nothing more to be said.
They had met the foreign gentleman in the lane as they were coming home from a walk with Rose, and they had wondered whether he had been to see their father. "I hope he has not been to say we mustn't go and play with Una in the glen any more," Dan had said; but they had no idea what the foreign gentleman's visit had really been about until their father told them the next morning, after breakfast.
Mr. Wilkins has never given testimony, but he is not the villain of the tale, and some authorities have a suspicion that he did not find Una altogether perfect. §
She evidently had a certain affection for her husband; and it was the more piteous that in his present state he only regarded her as the tempter who had ruined his life his false Duessa, who had led him away from Una.
Oh, Una, I did it for your sake; but there, terrified and trembling, in hiding behind the bushes, and in danger of my life, with that still more unspeakable danger for yours haunting me always like a nightmare, can you wonder that for the moment I almost felt myself a murderer? The very breezes in the trees made my heart give a jump, and then stand still within me.
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