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He found out about Madame de Blanchemain's nephew, Ellaline's Honoré, and put this and that together, until he'd patched up the theory of a love affair. But further he dared not go, on that track, so he pranced back to Versailles, and found out things about Audrie Brendon. The way he did that was through noticing the name of the Versailles photographer who took the group in the garden.
And the third sister Morgan le Fay was put to school in a nunnery, and there she learned so much that she was a great clerk of necromancy. And after she was wedded to King Uriens of the land of Gore, that was Sir Ewain's le Blanchemain's father.
A highly original character, by all accounts. One hears of her everywhere." Linda Lady Blanchemain's lip began to quiver; but she got it under control. "Well?" she questioned eyes fixing his, and brimming with a kind of humorous defiance, as if to say, "Think me an impertinent old meddler if you will, and do your worst," "Why don't you make it up with her?"
There was a sound of wheels on gravel, of horses' hoofs on stone, and Lady Blanchemain's great high-swung barouche, rolling superbly forth from the avenue, drew up before the Castle, Lady Blanchemain herself, big and soft and sumptuous in silks and laces, under a much-befurbelowed, much-befringed, lavender-hued silk sunshade, occupying the seat of honour.
He's a nephew of Madame de Blanchemain's, it seems; and on coming back from foreign service in Algeria, or somewhere, he dutifully paused to visit his relative. Of course it occurs to me, did Madame de Blanchemain write and intimate that she would have in the house a pretty little Anglo-French heiress, with no inconvenient relatives, unless one counts the Dragon?
What of that embroidered handkerchief? What of those shrewd suspicions of Lady Blanchemain's? What of his miller's daughter? And there was another thing still. What of his proud old honest Spartan of an unimaginative uncle? He thought of him, and "Oh, the poor old boy," he cried. "Not for ten times the money would I have had the dear old woman write to him like that.
Not that his coming would matter particularly if it weren't for complications, but there are several, the most formidable of which is a Young Man. The Young Man is a French young man, and his name is Honoré du Guesclin. She met him at Madame de Blanchemain's you remember the Madame de Blanchemain who was Ellaline's dead mother's most intimate friend, and who lives at St. Cloud?
"Oh," he cried, "I love her so much, I need her so, I suppose I shall end by doing the dishonourable thing." "Did you ever tell her that you were Lord Blanchemain's heir?" she asked. "I never thought of it. Why should I?" said John. "When you were bemoaning your poverty, as an obstacle to marriage, you might have remembered that your birth counted for something.
"Oh," he laughed, "you mustn't give me too much credit. To be English nowadays is so ingloriously easy since foreign lands have become merely the wider suburbs of London." Lady Blanchemain's eyes lighted approvingly. Afterwards she looked half serious.
The Scotch girl, with northern coldness of reason, has pointed out that Gretna Green is nowadays like any other place, but Ellaline is not weaned from the idea. There is a mother, as well as a girl, but only a stepmother, and apparently a detail; for the girl has the money and the strength of will. The two are stopping in a pension near Madame de Blanchemain's house.
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