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Updated: June 27, 2025
And the woman who married him would find it no tame future. Suddenly Delaine's warnings occurred to her. She laughed, a little hysterically. Could anyone have shown himself more helpless, useless, incompetent, than Arthur Delaine since the accident? Yet he was still on the spot. She realised, indeed, that it was hardly possible for their old friend to desert them under the circumstances.
"Well, and what then?" said a harsh voice in a French accent, interrupting the Chief Justice. Arthur Delaine's face, turning towards the speaker, suddenly lightened, as though its owner said, "Ah! precisely." "The plain of Lombardy is not a Paradise," continued Mariette, with a laugh that had in it a touch of impatience.
A little later Delaine and Elizabeth were sitting side by side on the garden chairs, four of which could just be fitted into the little railed platform at the rear of the car. Elizabeth was making herself agreeable, and doing it, for a time, with energy. Nothing also could have been more energetic than Delaine's attempts to meet her.
Elizabeth's lips twitched as she remembered Arthur Delaine's similar protests; but she kept her countenance, and merely worked the harder to pull her companion out of this odd pit of ill-humour into which he had fallen. And in the end she succeeded; he repented, and let her manage him as she would.
A hot impulse swept through him to tell her everything, to have done with secrecy. But he stifled it. What right had he to intrude his personal history upon her? least of all this ugly and unsavoury development of it? Pride spoke again, and self-respect. If it humiliated him to feel himself in Delaine's power, he must bear it.
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