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Lady Cromarty sighed, and then her thin lips tightened. "You are hopeless, Reggie. I sometimes feel as though I were here merely as matron of a home for lost Cromartys! Well, I hope your confidence won't be abused. I confess I don't feel very comfortable about it myself." "Well, well," said Sir Reginald. "My own eyes are open too, I assure you.
Cromarty admitted that she was nice looking; but was critical as to her carriage and manner. She would be admired by young officers, no doubt, but there was too much life and animation about her, and although she would not exactly say that she stooped, she was likely to do so in time. "She will be nothing remarkable when her freshness has worn off a little."
Fogg and Sir Francis Cromarty, after searching the village from end to end, came back without having found anything. "I shall go afoot," said Phileas Fogg. Passepartout, who had now rejoined his master, made a wry grimace, as he thought of his magnificent, but too frail Indian shoes.
The book was brought and this time he had about ten minutes to himself before the clerk entered again. "Mr. Cromarty of Stanesland to see you, sir," he announced. This announcement seemed to set the lawyer thinking hard. Then in his abrupt way he said: "Show him in." Mr. Rattar's second visitor was of a different type. Mr.
Price had suddenly begun to live arduously for the gramophone alone. And when summoned by the owner to come and form half of the third couple for dancing, Doctor Cromarty had the air of arousing himself from a meditation upon medicine. Also, the passengers themselves danced with conscientiousness, with elaborate gusto and with an earnest desire to reach a high standard.
The clerk in the background coughed and Miss Cicely Farmond moved towards the door of the lawyer's room, but Ned Cromarty seemed reluctant to end the meeting so quickly. "How did you come?" he asked. "Walked," she smiled. "Walked! And how are you going back?" "Walk again." "I say," he suggested eagerly, "I've got my trap in. Let me drive you!" She hesitated a moment.
Malcolm Cromarty to see you, sir," he said. Silent Simon looked at him hard, and it was evident to his clerk that his mind had been extraordinarily absorbed, for he simply repeated in a curious way: "Mr. Malcolm Cromarty?" "Yes, sir," said Mr. Ison, and then as even this seemed scarcely to be comprehended, he added, "Sir Reginald's cousin." "Ah, of course!" said Mr. Rattar. "Well, show him in."
Miss Cromarty was clearly overjoyed to hear of her brother's engagement. "And now, Neddy dear!" cried the bright lady, "tell me how it all came about!" Ned looked up from his telegram with a glint in his eye that was hardly a lover's glance. "Cicely will tell you all about it," said he. "I'm afraid I've got to be off pretty well as quick as I can."
He knew how to hold the arm of a woman above her head, while coiling his own around it in the manner of a snake, and he knew how to make his very body a vast syncopation. The effect of his arrival was as singular as himself. Captain Wyatt, Doctor Cromarty and Mr. Price withdrew to that portion of the deck about the wheel which convention had always roped off for them with invisible ropes.
Cromarty to be shown in, it was with an air which suggested the getting over a distasteful business as soon as possible. "Well, Mr. Cromarty?" he grunted brusquely. Mr. Cromarty never beat about the bush. "I've come to see you about this scandalous story that's going round." The lawyer glanced at the papers he had been busy with, as if to indicate that they were of more importance than scandals.
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