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"Captain Cranster might have been found out too late after the wedding," Mary explained with a smile. "Try to look at it like that. Five minutes to get ready, Cynthia!" She was ready for the weather herself, in the stout coat and skirt and weather-proof hat in which she had driven the two-seater on her round that morning.
The Captain could not yet cover the court in his old fashion, but his height and reach made him formidable at the net, and Cynthia was very active. Ten days of Inkston air had made a vast difference to Cynthia. And something else was helping. It required no common loyalty to lost causes and ruined ideals it is surely not harsh to indicate Captain Cranster by these terms? to resist Alec Naylor.
He tried to say the marriage wasn't binding, but the Colonel wasn't it providential that the Colonel was home on leave? Mamma could never have grappled with it! The Colonel was sure it was, and so were the lawyers." "What happened then?" "The great thing was to keep it quiet. Now, wasn't it? And there was the shell-shock or so Eustace Captain Cranster, I mean said, anyhow.
I had sold up my business in Spain; I was there six or seven years, just as Captain Captain ? Oh, Cranster, yes! was in Bogota when I joined up, and had no particular reason for going back there and, incidentally, no money to go back with. So I took on this job, which came to me quite accidentally.
In the light of her experience of men, so limited and so sharply contrasted, she made a simple classification of them; they were Cransters or Alecs; and each class acted after its kind. Plainly Beaumaroy was not an Alec; therefore he was Cranster, and Cranster-like actions were to be expected from him, of such special description as his circumstances and temptations might dictate.
He laughed in enjoyment of her thrust. "My place isn't Bogota though I fancy that it's rather in the same moral latitude. You're confusing me with Captain Cranster!" "So I was for a moment," said Doctor Mary demurely. "But what about the appointment, anyhow?" "What about your partnership with Dr. Irechester, if you come to that?"
"Yes, I think I do. But since my engagement I'd gone into colors. Oh, of course I've gone back into mourning now! And everything was ready settlements and so on, you know. And rooms taken at Bournemouth. And then it all came out!" "How?" "Well, Eustace Captain Cranster, I mean. Oh, I think he really must have had shell-shock, as he said, even though the doctor seemed to doubt it!
But now, under stress of emotion small blame to a man who was making a vow of eternal fidelity! under stress of emotion, as, on a previous occasion, under that of indignation, the Captain had raised his voice! "Yes, against all the scoundrels in the world, whether they're called Cranster or Beaumaroy!" he said. Mary's eyes opened. She sat up. "Cranster and Beaumaroy?"
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