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I laid down the book with some exclamation. 'What is the matter, Mr Cumbermede? she asked, with the slightest possible glance up from the fine meshes of her work. 'I had not the slightest idea you were in the room. 'Of course not. How could a literary man, with a Forget-me-not in his hand, be expected to know that a girl had come into the room?
But instead of laying a general interdict on the custom, he only said, 'Come, come, boys! it's time you were asleep. Go to your rooms directly. 'Please, sir, faltered one Moberly by name the dullest and most honourable boy, to my thinking, amongst us, 'mayn't I stay where I am? Cumbermede has put me all in a shiver. Mr Elder laughed, and turning to me, asked with his usual good-humour,
While I shifted the saddles Clara broke the silence, which I was in too great an inward commotion to heed, by asking 'What is the name of your beauty, Mr Cumbermede? 'Lilith, I answered. 'What a pretty name! I never heard it before. Is it after any one any public character, I mean? 'Quite a public character, I returned 'Adam's first wife. 'I never heard he had two, she rejoined, laughing.
'Dear Mr Cumbermede, 'You will be surprised at receiving a note from me still more at its contents. I am most anxious to see you so much so that I venture to ask you to meet me where we can have a little quiet talk. I am in London, and for a day or two sufficiently my own mistress to leave the choice of time and place with you only let it be when and where we shall not be interrupted.
'You do not remember me, sir, I said. 'I am Wilfrid Cumbermede. 'I have cause to remember you. 'Will you not sit down, sir? Charley will be home in less than an hour I quite expect. Again he turned his back as if about to leave me. 'If my presence is disagreeable to you, I said, annoyed at his rudeness, 'I will go. 'As you please, he answered.
The other day, when I dined at Sir Giles's, Mr Alderforge said that Cumbermede was a name belonging to Sir Giles's ancestry or something to that effect; but that again could have had nothing to do with those papers, or with the Moat at all. Here I stopped, for I could not bring myself to refer to the sword.
I saluted him in passing, and he not only returned the salutation in a friendly manner, but made a step towards me as if he wished to speak to me. I turned and approached him. He came out and shook hands with me. 'I know who you are, Mr Cumbermede, although I have never had the pleasure of speaking to you before, he said frankly.
His eye glittered with what, under other circumstances, I might have taken for satisfaction; but he turned his face away and rose, saying with a curiously altered tone, as he took up his hat, 'I'm very sorry to have offended you, Mr Cumbermede. I sincerely beg your pardon. I thought our old friendship may I not call it? would have justified me in merely reporting what I had heard.
'Will you see Mrs Wilson, Clara, and arrange with her for your accommodation? 'With pleasure. I don't mind where I'm put unless it be in Lord Edward's room where the ghost is. 'You mean the one next to ours? There is no ghost there, I assure you, said Sir Giles, laughing, as he again left the room with short, heavy steps. 'Manage it all to your own mind, Mr Cumbermede.
I could but admire and pity my poor friend both at once. Miss Pease had entered unheard. 'Mr Cumbermede, she said, 'I have been looking for you to show you your room. It is not the one I should like to have got for you, but Mrs Wilson says you have occupied it before, and I dare say you will find it comfortable enough. 'Thank you, Miss Pease. I am sorry you should have taken the trouble.
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