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"If you were in Ashe's position, would you rather your wife neglected or supported your political interests?" Mrs. Alcot shrugged her shoulders. "Kitty made a considerable mess of them last year." "No doubt. She forgot they existed. But I think if I were Ashe, I should be more afraid of her remembering. By-the-way the glass here seems to be at 'Set Fair'?"
"He arrives to-morrow. On his way from Scotland to Windsor." Mrs. Alcot enjoyed the effect of her communication on her companion. He sat open-mouthed, evidently startled out of all self-command. "Why, I thought that Lady Kitty " "Had vowed vengeance? So, in a sense, she has. It is understood that she and Lady Parham don't meet, except "
"On formal occasions, and to take in the groundlings," said Darrell, too impatient to let her finish her sentence. "Yes, that I gathered. But you mean that Lord Parham is to be allowed to make his peace?" Madeleine Alcot lay back and laughed. "Kitty wishes to try her hand at managing him." Darrell joined her in mirth.
It seemed to her that she was a dead creature, floating in a dead world. William had ceased to love her. She had wrecked his career and destroyed her own happiness. Her child had been taken from her. Lady Tranmore's affection had been long since alienated. Her own mother was nothing to her; and her friends in society, like Madeleine Alcot, would only laugh and gloat over the scandal of the book.
"''Tis better to have fought and lost Than never to have fought at all " she quoted, with one of her most radiant and provoking smiles. "Incorrigible!" cried the Dean, catching up his hat. "I see! Once an Archangel always an Archangel." "Oh no!" said Kitty. "There may be 'war in heaven." "Well, don't take Mrs. Alcot for a leader, that's all," said the Dean, as he held out a hand of farewell.
Alcot at home?" he asked the butler. "Can I have an answer to this note?" "Mrs. Alcot has been in her room since yesterday morning, sir. She was taken ill just before the coach was coming round, and the horses had to be sent back. But the doctor last night hoped it would be nothing serious." Ashe turned and went home. Then Kitty was not with Madeleine Alcot not on the coach!
"They are merely the harvest of what she has sown?" "Naturally. Poor Kitty!" Madeleine Alcot rested her thin cheek on a still frailer hand and looked pensively out into the darkness of the cedars.
"She says she will, but I couldn't make her understand anything I wanted. She is off her head! They all are. By-the-way, did you hear of Madeleine Alcot's. telegram to Worth?" "No." Kitty laughed a laugh musical but malicious. Mrs. Alcot, married in the same month as herself, had been her companion and rival from the beginning.
His interrogative smile was not wholly good-natured. But mere benevolence was not what the world asked of Philip Darrell even in the case of his old friends. "Astonishing!" said Mrs. Alcot, with lifted brows. "Kitty is immensely proud of him and immensely ambitious. That, of course, accounts for Lord Parham's visit." "Lord Parham!" cried Darrell, bounding on his seat. "Lord Parham! coming here?"
The new-comer advanced, putting up a pair of fashionable eye-glasses, and looking at the two men in a kind of languid perplexity, intended, as Darrell immediately said to himself, merely to prolong the moment and the effect of her entry. Mrs. Alcot was very tall, and inordinately thin.
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