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Baske, he had thought a good deal about her; since then she had slipped from his mind, but now he felt his interest reviving. Surely she was as remote from him as a woman well could be, yet his attitude towards her had no character of intolerance; he half wished that he could form a closer acquaintance with her.
At once he fixed his gaze on her, and did not remove it until her temples throbbed and she cast down her eyes in helpless abashment. "I have had a long letter from your brother, Mrs. Baske. It seems he posted it just before they left for Capri. I can only reply to it in one way, and it gives me so much pain to do so that I am driven to ask your help.
Baske, and their eyes met. Miriam smiled rather coldly, but continued to observe him after he had looked away again. "You met them at Genoa?" she asked presently, in her tone of habitual reserve. "Yes. I came by sea from London, and had a couple of days to wait for their arrival from Paris." "And I suppose you also are staying at Mrs. Gluck's?" "Oh no!
She kept an obstinate silence, sitting motionless, her hands tightly clasped together on her lap. "If you don't contradict me, I must conclude that I am right. To speak plainly, it had come to his knowledge that Mrs. Elgar no; I will call her Cecily, as I used to do when she was a child that Cecily had visited my studio the evening before. You told him of that. How did you know of it, Mrs. Baske?"
Mallard repeated that to himself as he looked at Mrs. Baske. To a great extent Cecily did, in fact, inhabit an ideal world. She was ready to accept the noble as the natural. Untroubled herself, she could contemplate without scepticism the image of an artist finding his bliss in solitary toil.
He motioned to her to sit down, but she gave no heed. "Then why did she come to you?" fell from her lips. "Please to take your seat again, Mrs. Baske." She obeyed him. He took a chair at a little distance, and answered her question. "She came because she was in great distress, and had no friend in whom she could confide so naturally. This was a misfortune; it should not have been so.
Before or after his coming here?" "After. I think," he added carelessly, "that Mrs. Baske suggested it to him." "Possibly. I know nothing of what passed between them." "Do you think Mrs. Baske has any idea on the subject?" Mallard inquired, again without special insistence. "She spoke rather mysteriously," Eleanor replied. "When I said that Mrs.
Baske," he began then pondered, and rose to give a touch to the picture on which his eyes were fixed. But he seated himself again, and wrote on rapidly. "Would you do me the kindness to come here to-morrow early in the afternoon? If you have an engagement, the day after would do. But please to come, if you can; I wish to see you." There was no reply to this.
As he entered the drawing-room, his first glance fell on Seaborne, who sat in conversation with Mrs. Baske. The man of letters was just returned from Italy. Going to shake hands with Miriam, Mallard exchanged a few words with him; then he drew aside into a convenient corner. He noticed that Miriam's eyes turned once or twice in his direction.
Baske was about to undertake. For a day or two Miriam enjoyed the excitement this produced the inquiries, the felicitations, the reports of gossip. She held her head more firmly than ever; she seemed of a sudden to be quite re-established in health. Another day or two, and she was lying seriously ill so ill that her doctor summoned aid from Manchester.
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