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Updated: June 12, 2025
It was one afternoon towards the end of April, and Carrissima congratulated herself that she had made up her mind to spend it indoors, although the trees in the parks were in fresh green leaf, and London was looking its brightest and best. There had been, however, a few showers at luncheon-time, and Colonel Faversham had set out through one afterwards "to his club."
While Colonel Faversham approved of every endeavour to keep Carrissima and everybody else in the dark for the present, he was determined to stand no nonsense. He requested her to go to Golfney Place, and following the line of least resistance, she went, persuading Bridget to come to Grandison Square as her father wished.
"Oh, you were very discreet very clever! But it wasn't long before I saw you would give your heart for Mark " "You have not the least right to say that!" exclaimed Carrissima. "Of course I haven't," Bridget admitted. "I am taking the most abominable liberty.
Was it likely that, after all her alarums and excursions, she had found a resting-place at last; that Carrissima was right when she insisted that Jimmy had ousted Colonel Faversham, but wrong when she imagined that Bridget's inducement was his larger income? "I'm sorry to be so late," said Mark, when at last he entered Carrissima's presence that evening. "Oh, it isn't too late," she answered.
"Do, for goodness' sake," he expostulated, "try to fix your mind on one thing at a time." "It depends on its nature," said Carrissima. "Whom should I see getting out of a taxi," cried Lawrence, "but the colonel and some woman." "My dear Lawrence," was the answer, "knowing father as well as you pretend to know everybody, surely you cannot imagine there's anything very unusual about that."
"Shall you be at home this evening?" he asked, turning to Carrissima the next moment. Although she would infinitely have preferred to say "no," to avoid seeing him again, indeed, as long as the world lasted, she felt afraid lest she should awaken a suspicion of her enlightenment.
"Upon my word, I am most awfully sorry," he replied, and turned at once to Carrissima, who was striving to hide her satisfaction on seeing his face again. Never, perhaps, during their long acquaintance, had they been so many months apart; but while Mark was in London between Christmas and his departure for the North of England, Carrissima had been on a long visit to Devonshire.
"She told me only the other day that she hadn't met him. I wondered why on earth you hadn't introduced her to Phoebe!" "Lawrence," Carrissima explained, "saw Bridget going into the Haymarket Theatre with you the other afternoon." "Good heavens!" exclaimed Colonel Faversham, stamping about the room, "it has come to this! I mustn't go to the play without begging my children's permission.
"Oh, do let me help you!" suggested Bridget, going to her side, and from that instant Carrissima seemed to have only one object in life. Above all things she wished to lead both Bridget and Mark to believe that she had seen nothing out of the common!
But, even so, she could never build such an abominable theory on that ludicrously insufficient evidence. "Well," said Jimmy, "Carrissima insists that she saw you holding Bridget in your arms in the act of kissing her, to put it plainly." This was a trying moment for Mark Driver. His face was crimson, and he would have given a great deal to be able to deny the too soft impeachment.
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