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Delancy was not to be beguiled from the fixed habits of thoughts carried through scores of years by the winsome blandishments of her whilom ward. She had no answering gentleness for the gladness in the girl's face. When she spoke, it was with an emphasis of acute disapproval: "Do you mean that you are going to make your husband choose between you and his business, Cicily?"
At a gesture of warning from his wife, Hamilton faced about, and saw his two business foes. "Well, well, I didn't know that you were here," he exclaimed, with a fair showing of cordiality, as he advanced, and shook hands with the visitors. Delancy contented himself with bowing to each in turn, then went to Cicily, and asked for a cup of tea.
"I think we had better do some more business, now," she added hastily, with an appealing glance toward her aunt. Mrs. Delancy rose to the emergency on the instant. "By all means," she urged. "Let us get on with the business. We haven't been going ahead very fast, it seems to me. Why not elect the officers right away?"
Aunt Marcia's gift has not brought him very good luck, even from the first. What is the use of so much talking? Is not the wild rose sweet without a comment? Since there is no real alarm about Mrs. Floyd, arrangements go onward. Madame Lepelletier and Mr. and Mrs. Delancy come up on the appointed day, and madame is led to the lovely guest chamber where she reigned before.
With a full perception of the catastrophe in which she had so innocently become involved, the wife hurriedly recounted the facts to her aunt, bewailing the evil destiny that had worked such dire havoc with her schemes for good. "Well, you did what you could," Mrs. Delancy suggested consolingly, when at last the melancholy recital was ended. "And I failed!" came the retort, in a voice of misery.
Delancy and Hamilton might still retain doubts as to the issue of the affair, but she had none. Her instinct, which had so ably guided her to this point, now assured her that victory was assured. It must be, then, that the husband who had treated her claims and pretensions so fleeringly would henceforth recognize her worth.
"Now, if only Charles doesn't spoil things again!" she murmured. Morton and Carrington were just finishing their low-toned, but very animated, conference at the end of the drawing-room, when their attention, together with that of Cicily, was attracted by a noise at the door. All three looked up, to see Hamilton striding into the room. Behind him came Delancy.
"Have you ever known me, since I've been married " He caught Grandcourt's eye, stammered, and stopped short. Then: "You certainly are absurd. Delancy! I wouldn't deliberately interfere with you or disturb a young girl's peace of mind. The trouble with you is " "The trouble with you is that women take to you very quickly, and you are always trying to see how far you can arouse their interest.
Mrs. Delancy clasped his arm and looked down upon Austin as if he had suddenly gone mad. "You want to come down, eh?" cackled Austin. "Why don't you come down? I know you'll pardon my laughter, but I have just remembered that you may be a horse thief and that I was not going to let you escape. Mrs. Delancy refuses to speak to me, so I decline to ask her to come down."
And the Major knew, for his principal experience had been with a deliquescent society. Whether Carmen admired Mrs. Delancy or thought her weak it is impossible to say, but she understood the advances made and responded to them, for they fell in perfectly with her social plans. She even had the face to eulogize Mrs.
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