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"Don't approve of strong language," he added hastily. "Never did approve of it, and very rarely employ it myself. An educated man ought to be able to express himself quite sufficiently clearly without having recourse to it. Still, I must own this engagement of Constance's has upset me more than almost any event of my life. Nasty, anxious work marrying your daughters.
"Nothing at all." The autocrat stared for a moment, as though trying to read Constance's thoughts; then she waved her hand. "Go back to your work. Stay in the library till you hear from me again." Constance quivered with the impulse to make indignant reply, but prudence prevailed. She bent her head to conceal wrathful features, and in silence went from the room.
As he plunged again Grace screamed in unison as she realized her companion's peril; she never knew that at that moment of supreme dread she had instinctively cried out the name of the rider in the next field, conscious only of that terrible strand of barbed wire which was goading Constance's horse to frenzy.
It was in the evening of a lovely spring day that Constance, accompanied by Kent, rejoined Maude and her children at Langley. "He that hath a thousand friends hath not a friend to spare, And he that hath one enemy shall find him everywhere." On the evening of Constance's arrival at Langley, two men sat in close conference in the Jerusalem Chamber of the Palace of Westminster.
She even climbed to Constance's old bedroom; her mother had stripped the bed that was all, except a slight diminution of this room, corresponding to that of the shop! Then to the drawing-room. In the recess outside the drawing-room door the black box of silver plate still lay. She had expected her mother to take it; but no! Assuredly her mother was one to do things handsomely when she did them.
So they came after me and I went with them; and they adopted me and we all love each other to death. Constance's my cousin now and she stands it without batting an eyelash. She's about the cream of the earth, Johnny!" He drew in his breath sharply. "You're a lucky kid!" he told her. There was something in the intensity of his tone which made her look up at him, startled.
He finished on a tone of insolence. "I can't allow you to do it yet," said Constance, quietly. "It's quite out of the question. Quite!" He pouted and then he sulked. It was war between them. At times he was the image of his Aunt Sophia. He would not leave the subject alone; but he would not listen to Constance's reasoning. He openly accused her of harshness.
The advent of the young couple's last child, little Rose, had already increased their expenses to such a point that they had been obliged to seek refuge in the country, in a mere pauper's hovel. And yet, in spite of Beauchene's sneers and Constance's angry remarks, Mathieu outwardly remained very calm.
Immediately after breakfast Cyril's bedroom was invested and revolutionized; not till evening was order restored in that chamber. And on the Wednesday morning it had to be dusted afresh. Sophia watched the preparations, and the increasing agitation of Constance's demeanour, with an astonishment which she had real difficulty in concealing. "Is the woman absolutely mad?" she asked herself.
"If I have a moment I shall run in to-morrow morning just to let you know I'm all right," said he, in the white street. "Oh, do!" said Constance. Constance's perfect innocence made her strangely forward at times. "A happy New Year and many of them!" "Thanks! Same to you! Don't get lost." "Straight up the Square and first on the right," called the commonsense of Mr. Povey.
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