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Updated: June 23, 2025
"I meant, Cheriton agreed with me, I'm sure.... But, Hilary those statuettes you can't really.... They're mid-Victorian, and positively offensive!" His voice rose shrilly. They had been so horrible, Diana and Actæon. He couldn't forget them, in their podgy sentimentality. "And and that chalice ..." he shuddered over it "and " "That'll do, thanks," Hilary broke in.
Vyvian broke out about Cheriton. "Did you see that grand fellow who was too proud to know me? Driven you away too, has he? We don't know people in boarding-houses we're in our private flat ourselves! It makes me sick!" But his vulgarity when he was angry was a shade less revolting, because more excusable, than when he wasn't.
"Oh!" murmured Margaret, her eyes filling with tears, that yet had no bitterness in them; "but it could not have been so, Aunt Faith. Papa was an angel, you know; an angel of goodness and love." "Now you see what I mean by storing up light against the dark days," said Mrs. Cheriton.
To hurt anyone was atrocious; to hurt Hilary unforgivable. He would have done a great deal now to make amends. He stammered over it. "I did think, I'm afraid, that you and Cheriton were doing it to make him happy or something. I'm awfully sorry; I was an ass; I ought to have known. But it never occurred to me that you didn't kn that you had a different opinion of the things.
He was a stable man, and perhaps it is only the stable who are really susceptible of help, thought Peter vaguely. At seven o'clock Peter and Leslie went to the Ca' delle Gemme. They found Cheriton there. Cheriton was talking when they arrived, in his efficient, decisive, composed business tones. Lord Evelyn was pacing up and down the room, his fine, ringed hands clasped behind his back.
Cheriton, and came away so deeply smitten that they could talk of nothing else for some time. Rita and Peggy opened their young eyes very wide when Carlos declared she was the most beautiful person he had ever seen, and Fernando responded with fervour: "She eess a godess! the wairld contains not of soche."
Cheriton suspected from the first, you see.... From what Lord Evelyn said, I gather he means to prosecute.... He is ... very angry indeed.... They all are...." On the last statement Peter's voice sank a little in pitch, so that they hardly heard it. But the last statement mattered to no one but Peter.
Peter turned and looked behind him to see who it was, and saw Mr. Guy Vyvian approaching. It was obvious from his checked recognition that he thought he knew Cheriton, and that Cheriton did not share the opinion. Peter saw Vyvian's mortified colour rise; he was a vain and sensitive person. Cheriton came and sat down among them.
"Of course! and be snowed under with invitations which would be odious to him, and probably roped in for something by Helen and Sue Louise Cheriton, say. He can have fun here, without its leading to anything." She added, with perverse merriment: "At least he thinks he can, not knowing that two enterprising strangers are camping right across his little trail." Mrs. Heth frowned slightly.
I was quite sorry to think that by five o'clock that afternoon we should reach Adolphus Town, and so part company. About ten minutes to five, we were collecting our scattered things, and putting our front-hair straight by the mirror in the ladies' compartment. "Well, Miss Cheriton," I said warmly, longing to kiss her as I spoke, "I shall never forget how kind you two have been to me.
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