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Updated: June 15, 2025
"A year ago to-day, where were you?" said one Brigadier to another, as the two Generals stood against the wall in the Beechmark drawing-room to watch the dancing. "Near Albert," said the man addressed. "The brigade was licking its wounds and training drafts." The other smiled. "Mine was doing the same thing near Armentières. We didn't think then, did we, that it would be all over in five months?"
But there was something in her pensive, sorrowful look that affected Philip more than any vehement emotion could have done. The thought of all her devotion their long friendship her womanly ways came upon him overwhelmingly. But another thought checked it Helena! and his promise to her dead mother. If he now made Cynthia the mistress of Beechmark, Helena would never return to it.
It was unsuspected and rather interesting. The drought continued; and under the hot sun the lilacs were already pyramids of purple, the oaks were nearly in full leaf, and the hawthorns in the park and along the hedges would soon replace with another white splendour the fading blossom of the wild cherries. It was Sunday morning, and none of the Beechmark party except Mrs.
It had needed the moral and practical upheaval caused by the reappearance and death of Anna, to drive Helena from Philip and Beechmark; and if Helena enchanting and incalculable as ever, even in her tamer mood were presently to resume her life in Philip's house, no one could expect the Fates to intervene again so kindly.
But he had only inherited the Beechmark property from his uncle just before the war, and during almost the whole of the war he had been so hard at work, as a volunteer in the Admiralty, that he had never been able to do more than run down once or twice a year to see his agent, go over his home farm, and settle what timber was to be cut before the Government commandeered it.
Buntingford and Cynthia walked across the park to Beechmark. From the extreme despondency they were lifted to an extreme of hope. Buntingford had felt, as it were, the spirit of his son strain towards his own; the hidden soul had looked out. And in his deep emotion, he was very naturally conscious of a new rush of affection and gratitude towards his old playfellow and friend.
When they regained the inn, Geoffrey had not even such a butterfly kiss to remember as she had once given him in the lime-walk at Beechmark; and Lucy, trying in her eager affection to solve the puzzle they presented her with, had simply to give it up. The day grew wilder.
There, sitting among the rushes by the side of the little dammed-up stream, he produced a letter from Mrs. Friend, with the latest news of his ward. "Evidently we shan't get Helena back just yet. I shall run up next week to see her, I think, Cynthia, if you will let me. I really will take Arthur to Beechmark this week. Mrs. Mawson has arranged everything. His rooms are all ready for him.
He adores his father, and will sit beside him, stroking his silky beard, with his tiny fingers, and looking at him with his large pathetic eyes ... They have taken him to Beechmark, as you know, and given him a set of rooms, where he and his wonderful little teacher, Miss Denison trained in the Séguin method, they say and the old bonne Zélie live. The nurse has gone.
Alcott. Not all were Buntingford's guests; some were staying at the Cottage, some in another neighbouring house; but Beechmark represented the headquarters of a gathering of which Helena Pitstone and her guardian were in truth the central figures.
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