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"I have met his daughter," said Carrissima, and, in reply to her father's demand for further information, she told him all she knew about Bridget; how that she had made Mark Driver late for dinner; how that, after some dubitation, a visit had been paid to Golfney Place, and duly returned.
Flattering herself that she had now a firm grip of the situation, Carrissima began to marvel that a man of her father's long experience could remain blind to the facts of the case. "Father," she said, alone with him after dinner the same evening, "I heard some rather astonishing news this afternoon." "Ah well," answered the colonel, "it takes a great deal to astonish me.
"We've done our level best in the circumstances," he answered, with an embarrassed, boyish laugh, and then, dinner being announced, Jimmy offered his arm to Carrissima. While the servants were present everybody seemed to have a great deal to say with the exception of Miss Faversham, whose silence failed, however, to attract the least attention.
"Where is Phoebe?" asked Carrissima, as she offered her hand. "An awful bore," answered Mark. "Victor has a bit of a cold; anyhow I couldn't persuade his devoted mother to desert him this afternoon." "I suppose," said Carrissima, hoping that she was not betraying her disappointment, "we must wait for another day." "Nonsense!" exclaimed Colonel Faversham.
Going to the fire, he stood on the hearthrug warming his palms and making perfunctory inquiries after Lawrence and Phoebe and their child. "How do you think I'm looking?" he demanded, suddenly facing Carrissima. "Splendid," she answered. "I don't think I have ever seen you looking better." "Well, I never felt better," he exclaimed, putting back his shoulders and puffing out his chest.
Well, Aunt Jane and Aunt Frances think honestly that I am going to perdition as fast as I can." "I suppose," suggested Carrissima, "they would like you to live with them?" "Oh dear! they are quite mad about it. You know everybody is mad about something! They write every week, but I positively couldn't endure it.
Of course he had hitherto always resisted the temptation, which was the greater because he knew that he need not fear opposition; but still, there was Carrissima and he resisted it again. He went to Grandison Square the following afternoon as if to seek a corrective; and once in her presence marvelled at his own weakness.
Jimmy, indeed, was a delicate topic, and he would probably have kept his own counsel concerning the meeting in Piccadilly, if he had not feared lest she should subsequently come into contact with Carrissima, when his silence might defeat his own end. "Whom do you think I saw this morning?" he asked, after dinner that evening. "Not not Bridget?" she exclaimed. "Yes Mrs. Jimmy!
"The simple explanation must be," returned Carrissima, with a tremor in her voice, "that Bridget said eight, and we understood half-past seven." "In that event we must have been dreaming!" "But then," she suggested, "it isn't likely that two persons would dream the same thing, is it?" "Oh well, I'm not certain," said Mark, and he rested a hand on the arm of her chair.
"It's perfectly true," muttered Mark, moistening his lips, "that Carrissima came to Golfney Place and saw me " "Saw you saw you with Bridget in your arms! Good Lord!" exclaimed Jimmy, gazing down at Mark's bowed head. Rising from his chair, Mark gripped one lapelle of his frock coat in each hand as he paced the small room.
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