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If she could have reached Marie, that would have given her some satisfaction to tear out her eyes! For Ferdinand Ardayre had told her how Marie had given her up, working quietly until she had all necessary proofs, and then denouncing her.
"He is much too old to be your son!" Mrs. Ardayre smiled again while Amaryllis made her sit down on the sofa beside her and helped her off with her furs. "I am forty-nine years old, Amaryllis if I may call you so but one ought never to grow old in body. It is not necessary, and it is not agreeable to the eye!" Amaryllis looked at her carefully in the full side light.
There was an insouciance about him, a debonnair sans gene which increased the charm of his good looks; he had everything of attraction about him which John Ardayre lacked. Amaryllis, against her will, before the end of the dinner, was conscious of the fact also, though Denzil studiously avoided any conversation with her beyond what the exigencies of politeness required.
Temperament and romance and even passion, and there were shrewdness and commonsense as well. "An agreeable task for a man to undertake her education," and he wished that he had time. Amaryllis Ardayre asked again: "How can one not think? I am always thinking." He smiled indulgently. "Oh! no, you are not you only imagine that you are.
"And then we shall see, thy Marie knows that which may punish her some day soon!" Harietta, quite indifferent to these matters, telephoned immediately to Ferdinand Ardayre. He must come to her instantly without a moment's delay! And she stamped her foot. A plan which might give her some satisfaction to execute had evolved itself in her brain.
Then, all confused, she murmured something about "Good-night," and retired to the magnificent state suite alone. When she had left him John Ardayre drank down a full glass of Benedictine and followed her up the stairs, but there was no lover's exaltation, but an anguish almost of despair in his eyes.
When he had left her on the following afternoon, the seventh of August, she had returned to Ardayre alone and began the knitting and shirt-making and amateurish hospital committees which all well-meaning English women vaguely grasped at before the stern necessities brought them organised work to do.
"The whole family are alive I believe we were a tenacious lot!" "If you and John both get leave at Christmas you must come with him and spend it at Ardayre I shall have made your Mother's acquaintance by then, and we must persuade her too." He gave some friendly answer while he felt that John might not endorse this invitation. If the places were reversed, how would he himself act?
He went to the telephone and called up the Cavalry Club. Yes, Captain Ardayre was in, and presently Denzil's voice said surprisedly: "Hullo!" "I heard by chance that you were in town. I suppose your regiment will be going out at once. It is your cousin, John Ardayre, speaking, we have not met since you were a boy. I have something rather vital I want to say to you. Could you possibly come round?"
He thrust her from him in shrinking disgust, and the cruel vein in his character was aroused. "Love! do not dare to desecrate the name of love. You do not know what it means. I do and this shall always remain with you as a remembrance. I love Amaryllis Ardayre. She is my ideal of a woman tender and restrained and true I shall always lay my life at her feet.
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