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Amaryllis found her father and Sir Randal at the breakfast-table. "I'm so glad I'm not the laziest," she said, as she took her seat. "I'm afraid you are, my dear," replied her father. "Dick's fetching his car from Iddingfield," explained Randal. The air was torn by three distinct wails from a syren. "How unearthly!" said Amaryllis, with her hands to her ears. "That's Dick," said his brother.
"Good-bye, Amaryllis " He could not bring himself to say the usual conventionalities, and went towards the door with nothing more. Her brain was clearing, terror and passion and uncertainty had come in like a flood. "Denzil ?" He turned to her side fearfully. Why had she called him now? "Denzil ?" her face had paled still further, and there was an anguish of pleading in it.
And then, as they rounded an acute bend at the steepest point of the grade, Amaryllis saw below her, just beyond the bridge of grey stone from which their road began its ascent to the moor, a single ancient oak-tree, from the twisted trunk of which was stretched out across the by-road which followed the course of the bridged stream, that cruel, heavy arm, upon which in one day were hanged fifteen of Sir Thomas Wyatt's rebels in days popularly supposed merrier than ours.
Amaryllis smiled "and it must be divine to have a son I expect it would be easy to spoil one." Denzil clasped his hands rather tightly she looked so adorable as she said that, her eyes soft with inward knowledge of her great hope. How impossible it all was that they must remain strangers casual cousins and nothing more. "It must be an awful responsibility to have children," he said, watching her.
Amaryllis forced the corner of the coverlet between Fridji's teeth and held it there, keeping up the pressure of the other hand on the throat. "That's what they did to me," she thought. Dick stood beside her. "Change with me," he whispered, and slid his left hand round the front of Dutch Fridji's neck. Amaryllis stood up.
That evening Sir John Ardayre had taken his bride to dine in the Bois, and they were sitting listening to the Tziganes at Armenonville. Amaryllis was conscious that the evening lacked something. The circumstances were interesting a bride of ten days, and the environment so illuminating and yet there was John smoking an expensive cigar and not saying anything!
Verisschenzko was studying her face; it had gained something, it was a little finer but it had lost something too, and there was a shadow in her eyes. "Denzil Ardayre? No What made you mention him now?" "I shall be curious as to what you think of him, he is so like your husband, you know." The subject did not interest Amaryllis; she wanted to hear more of the Russian's unusual views.
But before he found words, Caldegard appeared on the terrace, shouting that it was five minutes past one, and lunch waiting. The pair walked side by side to the house. "Don't answer me to-day, Amaryllis," he said, "but just turn me and it over in your mind now and then between this and Friday." At a quarter past two that afternoon, Amaryllis, with her bull-dog, set out for a walk.
There had been no Christmas feasting, but there were gifts to be distributed and various other duties and ceremonies to be gone through, although they had missed the Christmas day. Amaryllis tried in every way to be helpful to her husband, and he appreciated her stateliness and sweet manners with all the tenants and people on the estate.
He seldom danced himself, and therefore must often have been weary, but no suggestion of this ever reached Amaryllis. "What does he talk to his friends about, I wonder?" she asked herself, watching him from across a room, in a great house after dinner one night. John was seated beside the American Lady Avonwier, a brilliant person who did not allow herself to be bored.
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