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"If you possess a more becoming one than this," Lord Arranmore said, with a bow, "it is well for our peace of mind that you cannot wear it." "That is a very pretty subterfuge, but a subterfuge it remains," Lady Caroom answered. "Now be candid. I love candour. What are you going to do to amuse us?" He shook his head. "Do not spoil my effect. The slightest hint would make everything seem tame.
"We talk of life so glibly," he said. "It is a pity that we cannot realize its simplest elements. Life is purely subjective. Nothing exists except in our point of view. So we are continually making and marring our own lives and the lives of other people by a word, an action, a thought." "Dear me!" Lady Caroom murmured.
"That fellow Lavilette," Arranmore continued, seemed worried about your anonymous subscription. I was in an evil temper yesterday afternoon, and Verity amused me. So I wrote and confounded the fellow by explaining that it was I who sent the money the thousand pounds you had." "You?" Lady Caroom exclaimed, breathlessly. "You sent me that thousand pounds?" Brooks cried.
"There are people," Lady Caroom answered, "who look always towards the clouds, even when the sun is shining." "I am in the minority," Lord Arranmore said, smiling. "I feel myself becoming isolated. Let us abandon the subject." "No, let us convert you instead," Sybil declared. "We want to look at the sun, and we want to take you with us. You are really a very stupid person, you know.
Before they could descend there was a familiar sound from behind, and a young man, in a grey flannel suit and Panama hat, jumped from his motor and came to the carriage door. "Don't be awfully cross!" he exclaimed, laughing. "You know you half promised to come with me this afternoon, so I couldn't help having a spin out to see whether I could catch you up. Won't you allow me, Lady Caroom?
"We left him in the gun-room," Molyneux answered. "He is coming directly." Sybil Caroom, in a short skirt and a jaunty hat, came towards Brooks with outstretched hand. "Delightful!" she exclaimed. "I only wish that it had been nine thousand instead of nine hundred. You deserved it." Brooks laughed heartily. "Well, we were satisfied to win the seat," he declared.
He'll do nothing! He'll attempt nothing! Silly farce, politics, I think." Lady Caroom laughed softly. "I have never heard you so eloquent in my life, Sydney," she exclaimed. "Do go on. It is most entertaining. When you have quite finished I can see that Mr. Brooks is getting ready to pulverize you." Brooks shook his head. "Lady Sybil tells me that Mr.
If you won't come now I shall go by myself." "Go where?" he exclaimed. "Why, to one of the branches I don't care which. I can help for the rest of the day." He laughed. "Well, let me introduce you to Miss Scott," he said, turning round. "Mary, this is Lady Sybil Caroom. Miss Scott," he continued, turning to the younger girl, "has been my right hand since we first started.
"Brooks, do see her off the premises before she changes her mind and comes for me again. You have, I hope, been entertained, ladies," he added, turning to Sybil and Lady Caroom. He eyed them carelessly enough to all appearance, yet with an inward searchingness which seemed to find what it feared. He turned to Brooks, but he and Mary Scott had left the room together.
Lord Arranmore extended his arm to Lady Caroom. "Come," he said, "let us all be charitable to one another, for I too am starving." "You think they really liked it, then?" "How could they help it? It was such a delightful idea of yours, and I am sure all that you said was so simple and yet suggestive. Good-night, Mr. Brooks."
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