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Updated: June 6, 2025
"It has given your aunt Georgina and me a terrible shock," said Lady Belstone, faintly. "You can't expect a fellow who has been invalided home to turn up without a single scratch," said Peter, in rather surly tones. "How like his father!" said Miss Crewys. "Besides, you know very well my mother would have tormented herself to death if I had told her," said Peter.
There was a note of authority in his tone which somehow impressed Lady Belstone, who withdrew, muttering to herself, into the warm lamplight of the drawing-room. Perhaps the two old ladies were to be pitied, too, as they sat together, but forlorn, sincerely shocked and uneasy at their sister-in-law's behaviour.
Why did Timothy choose to trust a perfect stranger even though John is a cousin with the care of his wife and son, and his estate, rather than his own sisters?" "It was a gentleman's work," said Miss Crewys. "Gentleman's fiddlesticks! Couldn't old Crawley have done it? I should hope he is as good a lawyer as young John any day," said Lady Belstone, tossing her head.
"I am sorry I cannot offer you tea, Canon Birch, until my sister-in-law comes down," said Miss Crewys. "Our dear Lady Mary is so very unpunctual," said Lady Belstone. "I dare say something has detained her," said the canon, good-humouredly. "It often happens that my sister and myself are kept waiting a quarter of an hour or more for our tea. We do not complain," said Lady Belstone.
"She has no tact," said Lady Belstone, shaking her head; "for when Peter saw you were annoyed, and tried to pass it off by telling her the Crewys family had no sense of humour, instead of saying, 'What nonsense! she said, 'What a pity!" "Her mother was full of a letter from Lady Tintern about some grand lord or other, who wanted to marry Sarah.
He opened the door into the south drawing-rooms; and through the open windows there floated the distant strains of the village band. "Canon, your arm," said Lady Belstone. Lady Mary and her son had hastened out on to the terrace. The old ladies paused in the doorway; they were particular in such matters. "I believe I take precedence, Georgina," said Lady Belstone, apologetically.
Her keen eyes gleamed at her visitor through her spectacles, though her fingers never stopped for a moment. "I hope not. I've heard nothing." "My experience of men," said Lady Belstone, "is that they never do hear anything. But a widow cannot be too cautious in her behaviour. All eyes are fixed, I know not why, upon a widow," she added modestly.
Convincing himself that Hicks was dead, Grimbal galloped off towards Belstone village, the nearest centre of civilisation. There he reported the facts, directed police and labourers where to find the body and where to carry it, and subsequently rode swiftly back to Chagford.
But if there is any one, I can only say that such word had better not be uttered in my presence, that's all." "Dear me, Canon Birch, you excite yourself very unnecessarily," said Lady Belstone, with assumed surprise. "You are just confirming our suspicions." "What suspicions?" almost shouted the canon,
The drawing-room door was cautiously opened, and Peter's aunts came into the hall on tiptoe, followed by the canon. "Ah, I thought so," said Lady Belstone, in the self-congratulatory tones of the successful prophet, "it has been too much for poor Mary. She has been overcome by the joy of dear Peter's return."
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