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Updated: June 28, 2025
Had it been I that day in the church, wanting you as he did, I should have grovelled at your feet and promised to grow up. Garth Dalmain had the iron strength to turn and go, without a protest, when the woman who had owned him mate the evening before, refused him on the score of inadequacy the next morning. I fear there is no question of the view he would take of the situation as it now stands."
Garth Dalmain took out his cigarette case, carefully selected a cigarette, and sat with it between his fingers in absorbed contemplation. "Smoke," said Jane. "Thanks," said Garth. He struck a match and very deliberately lighted his cigarette. As he flung away the vesta the breeze caught it and it fell on the lawn, flaming brightly.
He sat down in a deep basket-chair, lighted a cigarette, pushed another chair into position, exactly in front of him, with his foot; then filling it, one by one, with friends of his own and Helen's, held conversation with them. "Quite right, my dear Mrs. Dalmain! You need not now confine yourself to looking your disapproval; you can say exactly what you think.
But a deadly stream flows from the roots of the Upas Hullo! Here comes Aubrey Treherne. Look out, Mrs. Dalmain! He owes you a grudge. Hey, presto! Vanish from the chair, or Helen's cousin will lean over, with a bleeding face, threatening to kill you with both hands!... "Good-evening, Cousin Aubrey. How is your lip to-night? You mustn't kiss Helen again, until that lip is well.
The last item of the local programme is in course of performance, after which the duchess explains Velma's laryngitis let us hope she will not call it 'appendicitis' and then I usher you up. Are you ready?" Garth Dalmain, as master of ceremonies, had sought Jane Champion on the terrace, and stood before her in the soft light of the hanging Chinese lanterns.
Lady Ingleby glanced at the clock, rose, and gave him her hand. "You have been more than kind, Sir Deryck, in coming to me yourself. I shall never forget it. And I am expecting Jane Champion Dalmain, I mean; why do one's friends get married? any minute. She is coming direct from town; the phaeton has gone to the station to meet her."
"I cannot let him go!" cried Myra. "And yet I cannot marry him, unless he is all I have believed him to be." "Ah, my dear, my dear!" said Mrs. Dalmain, tenderly. "You need to learn a lesson about married life. True happiness does not come from marrying an idol throned on a pedestal.
"Yes," said Nurse Rosemary, "and it usually resolves itself into 'gone away, and turns up afterwards unexpectedly! But, Mr. Dalmain, I have thought out several ways of helping so much in that and making it all quite easy. If you will consent to have your meals with me at a small table, you will see how smoothly all will work.
I am terrified; yet I know you are right. And, oh, you dear, don't leave me! See me through." "I am never away from Garth for a night, as you know," said Mrs. Dalmain. "But he and little Geoff went down to Overdene this morning, with Simpson and nurse; so, if your man can motor me over during the evening, I will stay as long as you need me." "Ah, thanks," said Lady Ingleby.
That Garth Dalmain should have been so moved as to forget even momentarily his punctilious courtesy of manner, was the highest possible tribute to her art and to her song.
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