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Meanwhile, he never communicated to her that he had travelled down to Beechcote in the same carriage with Lady Felton, the county gossip, and that in addition to other matters of which more anon the refreshment-room story had been discussed between them, with additions and ramifications leading to very definite conclusions in any rational mind as to the nature of the bond between Diana's cousin and the young Dunscombe solicitor.
Of course, I've always liked Marsham, and I'm very sorry he's got himself into such a mess. But as for Alicia, there's no love lost between us. I hear Miss Mallory's at Beechcote." Lady Niton replied that she had only been three days in the house, that she had asked ostentatiously for a carriage the day before to take her to call at Beechcote, and had been refused.
It was universally believed that the injury was a mere excuse, and that the publication of that most damning letter, on the very eve of the poll, was the sole and only cause why the Junior Lord of the Treasury failed on this occasion to meet the serried rows of his excited countrymen, waiting for him in the packed and stifling hall. It was the Vicar who took the news to Beechcote.
Lady Lucy said nothing. She, too, had grown white. The butler appeared. Marsham asked for the Sunday trains, ordered some packing, went down-stairs to speak to the Beechcote messenger, and returned. Ferrier retired into the farthest window, and Marsham approached his mother. "Good-bye, mother. I will write to you from Beechcote, where I shall stay at the little inn in the village.
"The laundry maids are allowed to go out every evening, if they like and Miss Mallory makes no attempt to influence the servants to come to church. The Vicar says the seats for the Beechcote servants have never been so empty." "Dear, dear!" murmured Mrs. Roughsedge. "And money is improperly given away. Several people whom the Vicar thinks most unfit objects of charity have been assisted.
Heretofore Diana had only appeared in black, the strict black which French dressmakers understand, for it was little more than a year since her father's death. The thought of seeing her in white stirred Mrs. Colwood's expectations. Tallyn Hall was eight miles from Beechcote. The ladies were to drive, but in order to show Mrs.
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