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Madame de Chantelle was resting, but would be down for dinner; and as for Owen, Anna supposed he was off somewhere in the park he had a passion for prowling about the park at nightfall... Darrow followed her into the brown room, where the tea-table had been left for him.
And I'm afraid he's lost his head, and will be imprudent and spoil things. You see, I hadn't meant to say a word to him till I'd had time to prepare Madame de Chantelle." She felt that Darrow was looking at her and reading her thoughts, and the colour flew to her face. "Yes: it was when I heard you were coming that I told him.
"Only my clear perception of the facts." "What facts do you mean?" Darrow hesitated. "You must know better than I," he returned at length, "that the way won't be made easy to you." "Mrs. Leath, at any rate, has made it so." "Madame de Chantelle will not." "How do YOU know that?" she flung back. He paused again, not sure how far it was prudent to reveal himself in the confidence of the household.
He knew the question of Owen's marriage was soon to be raised, and the abrupt alteration in the young man's mood made it seem probable that he was himself the centre of the atmospheric disturbance, For a moment it occurred to Darrow that Anna might have employed her afternoon in preparing Madame de Chantelle for her grandson's impending announcement; but a glance at the elder lady's unclouded brow showed that he must seek elsewhere the clue to Owen's taciturnity and his step-mother's concern.
Madame de Chantelle possibly as the result of her friend's ministrations was able to appear at the dinner-table, rather pale and pink-nosed, and casting tenderly reproachful glances at her grandson, who faced them with impervious serenity; and the situation was relieved by the fact that Miss Viner, as usual, had remained in the school-room with her pupil.
Of course I can't make Madame de Chantelle see this; but I can remind her that, with his character his big rushes of impulse, his odd intervals of ebb and apathy she may drive him into some worse blunder if she thwarts him now." "And you mean to break the news to her as soon as she comes back from Ouchy?" "As soon as I see my way to it. She knows the girl and likes her: that's our hope.
He even cherished certain exceptions to his rules as the book-collector prizes a "defective" first edition. The Protestant church-going of Anna's parents had provoked his gentle sarcasm; but he prided himself on his mother's devoutness, because Madame de Chantelle, in embracing her second husband's creed, had become part of a society which still observes the outward rites of piety.
Murrett's secretary, and that the people who employed her before were called Hoke? For, as far as Owen and I can make out, these are the gravest charges against her." "Still, one can understand that the match is not what Madame de Chantelle had dreamed of." "Oh, perfectly if that's all you mean." The lodge was in sight, and she hastened her step.
The shrewdness of the answer increased Darrow's interest in Miss Painter. She had not hitherto struck him as being a person of much penetration, but he now felt sure that her gimlet gaze might bore to the heart of any practical problem. Madame de Chantelle sighed out her recognition of the difficulty.
He demanded that the troops sent against him should be ordered to halt till the morrow, promising not to stir from Chantelle without a vindication of himself. "Whither would you go, my lord?" said Warthy: "if you wished to leave the kingdom, you could not; the king has provided against that everywhere." "Nay," said Bourbon, "I have no wish to leave the kingdom; I have friends and servants there."
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