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"Knows what?" "Knows what you did to my mother?" "Some people among the families immediately concerned," replied Colonel Arran coolly. "Who are they?" "Your mother's relatives, the Paiges, the Berkleys my family, the Arrans, the Lents " "What Lents?" interrupted the young man looking up sharply. "They live in Brooklyn. There's a brother and a sister, orphans; and an uncle. Captain Josiah Lent."
It was not till August that he hired a little cottage on the New Jersey coast and invited the Arrans to visit him. They accepted the invitation, and the three had spent together six weeks of seashore idleness, during which Stanwell's modest rafters shook with Caspar's denunciations of his host's venality, and the brightness of Kate's gratitude was tempered by a tinge of reproach.
Stanwell knew that the Arrans really preferred him to Mungold, but the knowledge only sharpened his envy of the latter, whose friendship could command visible tokens of expression, while poor Stanwell's remained gloomily inarticulate.
Millington would be seen by Kate, who was not given to independent explorations in the field of art; but one day, on entering the exhibition which he had hitherto rather nervously shunned he saw the Arrans at the end of the gallery in which the portrait hung.
It appeared that Stanwell had also been paid in advance, and well paid; for he began to permit himself various mild distractions, in which he generally contrived to have the Arrans share.
As Sir Lupus named me, Walter Butler dropped Sir George's hand and grasped mine, too eagerly to please me. "Ormond and Ormond-Butler need no friends to recommend them each to the other," he said. And straightway fell a-talking of the greatness of the Arrans and the Ormonds, and of that duke who, attainted, fled to France to save his neck.
When the Arrans left him in September he went to pay a few visits in the country, and on his return, a month later, to the studio building he found that things had not gone well with Caspar. The little sculptor had caught cold, and the labour and expense of converting his gigantic offspring into marble seemed to hang heavily upon him.
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