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"I thought Mrs. Guthrie Brimston had warned you " "Warned me?" Evadne quietly interposed. "Mrs. Guthrie Brimston brought me a scandalous story which had the effect of making me call on Mrs. Clarence at once. I suppose you have seen this precious Major Lopside's letter?" "Yes," he answered. "And I am sorry you called without consulting me. You really ought to have consulted me.
Price twitched his nose, and looked at Mr. St. John. "Some signs of the times are hopeful, certainly," the latter said enigmatically. "What! talking seriously in these our hours of ease?" Mrs. Guthrie Brimston broke in. "What is it all about?"
"Indeed!" he observed, leaning back in his chair, crossing his legs, and settling himself for a treat generally. "You surprise me, because she has never struck me as being the kind of person who would set the Thames on fire in any way." Mrs. Guthrie Brimston smiled enigmatically: "Do you admire her very much?" she asked with the utmost suavity.
The habit of seeing society through a haze of feeling as it should be was older than the American's entreaties that he should learn to know it as it is, and he deliberately chose to be unconvinced. "The person is casting covetous eyes at the bishop's pretty ewe lamb," Colonel Beston observed to Mrs. Guthrie Brimston sotto voce.
"She must be deuced nasty-minded herself, you know, or she wouldn't have known Finchley had a woman out with him," said Major Livingston, whom Mrs. Guthrie Brimston called "Lady Betty" because of his nice precise little ways with ladies. "Oh, trust a prude!" said Captain Brown. "They spy out all the beastliness that's going."
Guthrie Brimston next day, and finding her alone, had tea with her tete-a-tete; and of course she entertained him with her own version of what had occurred the night before. "The dinner itself was very good," she said. "All their dinners are, you know. But Mrs. Colquhoun was " she raised her hands, and nodded her head "well, just too awful!" she concluded.
"Do you happen to know what is at the bottom of the feud between Mrs. Guthrie Brimston and Mrs. Malcomson?" he asked her one morning at breakfast. "Mrs. Guthrie Brimston's defects of character obviously," said Evadne sententiously. "Then you prefer Mrs. Malcomson?" he suggested. "Now, I can't get on with her a bit. She always appears to me so cold and censorious."
Colonel Guthrie Brimston led people to suppose that he had left the service entirely on the duke's account, his disinterested intention being to vary the monotony for the poor old gentleman during his declining years. They had claimed Evadne's acquaintance with effusion, but she had not responded very cordially.
Guthrie Brimston continually, and of course people began to make much of the intimacy, and to talk of the way he neglected his poor young wife; but the only part of the arrangement which was not agreeable to the latter was having to entertain Major Guthrie Brimston sometimes during his lady's absence, and the lady herself when she stayed to tea.
Guthrie Brimston counsel for the prosecution, Evadne might have been set up as counsel for the defence; for it so happened that when she did speak in those early days it was usually in defence of something or somebody people, principles, absent friends, or enemies; anything unfairly attacked.
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