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"And what used to be called magic is only the controlled working of the law and order of things in these days. We must talk it all over." Lady Anstruthers became a little pale. "What?" she asked, low and nervously, and Betty saw her glance sideways at the windows of the room which opened on to the terrace. Betty took her hand and drew her down into a chair.
So he went forth to bring in more game, and he read no poetry these days. The calm male observer might marvel at Bessie's elation over the prospect of sitting in Mrs. Anstruthers Leason's box at the performance of "Faust" given by the French Opera Company on tour. But no candid woman will.
Nigel Anstruthers having discreetly waited until the two had passed into the house, and feeling that a man would be an idiot who did not remove himself from an atmosphere so highly charged, was making his way toward the lane and was, indeed, halfway through the gate when heavy feet were behind him and a grip of ugly strength wrenched him backward.
The groom got down from the box, and two men-servants appeared upon the steps. Lady Anstruthers descended, laughing a little as she talked to Ughtred, who had been with her. She was dressed in clear, pale grey, and the soft rose lining of her parasol warmed the colour of her skin. Sir Nigel paused a second and put up his glass. "Is that my wife?" he said. "Really! She quite recalls New York."
In the landau designated an elderly woman with wonderfully-dressed white hair sat smiling and bowing to friends who were walking. Lady Anstruthers, despite her eagerness, shrank back a little, hoping to escape being seen. "Oh, it is the Lows she is speaking to Tom and Alice I did not know they had sailed yet."
The being reminded in every-day matters of the still real existence of the power of this magic was the first step in the rebuilding of Lady Anstruthers. To realise that the wonderful and yet simple necromancy was gradually encircling her again, had its parallel in the taking of a tonic, whose effect was cumulative. She herself did not realise the working of it. But Betty regarded it with interest.
Thank you, Miss Vanderpoel, thank you for being so practical and and cool." "It WAS touching," said Lady Anstruthers, her eyes brimming over again. "And what the villagers feel is true. It goes to one's heart," in a little outburst. "People have been unkind to him! And he has been lonely in that great empty place he has been lonely.
But from the morning when she had been conscious of the sudden fury roused in her by Nigel Anstruthers' ugly sneer at Mount Dunstan, she had better understood the thing which had come upon her. Day by day it had increased and gathered power, and she realised with a certain sense of impatience that she had not in any degree understood it when she had seen and wondered at its effect on other women.
Anstruthers, his collar held by a hand with fingers of iron, writhed about and turned a livid, ghastly face upon his captor. "You have twice my strength and half my age, you beast and devil!" he foamed in a half shriek, and poured forth frightful blasphemies. "That counts between man and man, but not between vermin and executioner," gave back Mount Dunstan.
Now there was danger of the swoop into the darkness great danger though she clutched at the hedge that she might feel its thorns and hold herself to the earth. "YOU!" Nigel Anstruthers cried out. "You!" and flung forth a shout of laughter. "Where is she?" fiercely. "Lady Anstruthers is terrified. We have been searching for hours.
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