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After the first brief and common-place inquiry for my health, and hopes for my speedy recovery, she became silent; and I too, primed with topics innumerable to discuss knowing how short my time might prove before Mrs. Bingham's return could not say a word. "I hope, Mr. Lorrequer," said she, at length, "that you have incurred no risque by leaving your room so early."
"Ah, I shall be sixty before that happy day comes, and want nothing but scandal and a bath chair. I know the Bar and its moaning," she added, with acid wit. "You dream, you imagine what you would like to come true, but you are deceiving me and yourself. It will be like the story of Sir Robert Bingham's property once again. We shall be beggars all our days.
The germ of Jane's unexpected architectural facility was to be found, perhaps, in Susan Bates's table-cloth drawings; and it had developed during her long labors on those big brown sheets which Bingham's young man had brought so many times both to house and store. "But if you really want some notion of the front," she went on, "I can give it to you fast enough."
Bingham's apartments, we found that she had just left home to wait upon Mrs. O'Leary, and consequently, that Miss Bingham was alone. Trevanion, therefore, having wished me a safe deliverance through my trying mission, shook my hand warmly, and departed. I stood for some minutes irresolutely, with my hand upon the lock of the door.
It interests me to learn what people think and talk about, and somehow it doesn't seem to matter to me who the people are, for I was even more interested in your butler's political opinions than I was in Lord Frederick Bingham's. They are both Conservatives, but Lord Freddie seems shaky in his views, for you can argue him down in five minutes, but the butler is as steadfast as a rock.
It is doubtful whether young Murchison knew all that Bingham thought; Bingham so seldom told it all. There were matters in the back of Bingham's mind that prompted him to urge the course that Cruickshank had been empowered by the opposing counsel to suggest party considerations that it would serve no useful purpose to talk over with Murchison.
"My heart is my own," she said, "and I will make no answer to you about it. Think what you will. For the rest, it is not true. I am not what Elizabeth tells you that I am. I am not Geoffrey Bingham's mistress. It is true that I was in his room that night, and it is true that he carried me back to my own. But it was in my sleep that I went there, not of my own free will.
"I had started to my feet as soon as I heard the words, 'The girl is a singer in Peter Bingham's Variety Theater, but, when her name was mentioned and her probable death, the pangs that shot through me no words of mine can describe.
I, however, shook my head when he pointed out the advantages of his position. I was still wondering about Ralph. "I don't like it," I said. "Don't like what?" "Ralph Bingham's manner." "Of course not," said Arthur. "Nobody does. There have been complaints on all sides." "I mean, when you told him how you intended to get the ball out of the car." "What was the matter with him?" "He was too ha!"
Miss Bingham was assisted by Frederic de Belleville, Frazer Coulter and others less known to fortune and to fame, but "Mademoiselle Marni" was not accepted. It was staged "regardless," but even that fact did not count in its favor. Miss Bingham's pluck and recklessness were alone in evidence. Scarcely more felicitous was Miss Mary Mannering with "Nancy Stair."
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