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"I hardly hoped to find you." "I should have let you know that I was back." Their conversations were accustomed to begin awkwardly, constrainedly. They never spoke of ordinary topics, and each seemed to wait for a suggestion of the other's mood. At present Cecily was uneasy under her visitor's gaze, which was stranger and more inquisitive than usual. "So you have left the Denyers'?" she said.
Hibbert would not have the heart to stop his allowance; Mrs. Denyer had reasons for thinking otherwise, and her daughter saw the case in the same light. It must be added that he presumed the Denyers to be better off than they really were; in fact, he was to a great extent misled.
"He talks nonsense, my dear," interposed Mrs. Bradshaw. "Pay no attention to him." Miriam had heard now and then of Clifford Marsh. She met Jacob's smile, and involuntarily checked it by her gravity. "We might have asked the Denyers as well," said Cecily, "and have had another carriage, or gone by train." Mr.
"No; one of the Miss Denyers did. He had given them to her" "Oh!" He at once brightened. "And how did they strike you?" "I'm sorry to say they didn't interest me much. But I have no right to sit in judgment." Elgar had the good taste to say nothing more on the subject. He let his eyes rest on her down-turned face for a moment. "You see a good deal of Miriam, I'm glad to hear."
The Denyers knew nothing about her, except that she was able to refer them to a lady who had a house in Mayfair; her husband, she said, was abroad. She had brought a great deal of luggage, including books to the number of fifty or so.
I was thinking about you, and got confused. But you are married, of course. What is your name now? I can't remember." "Mrs. Elgar." "How silly of me! Mrs. Elgar, of course. Are you happily married?" "Why do you ask?" For the first time, she remembered the possibility that the Denyers knew of her disgrace. But Madeline's reply seemed to prove that she, at all events, had no such thing in mind.
As the Denyers were coming home, it surprised them to pass, at a little distance from the house, Clifford Marsh in conversation with the gentleman who had called upon Miss Doran. Madeline, exercising her new privilege of perfect sang-froid, took an opportunity not long after to speak to Clifford in the drawing-room. "Who was the gentleman we saw you with?"
When the cab was at the end of Eel size Park, she called the driver's attention, and bade him drive on to a certain other address, that of the Denyers. Zillah's letter of appeal, all but forgotten, had suddenly come to mind and revived her sympathies. Was there not some resemblance between her affliction and that of poor Madeline?
But I am full of inconsistencies as you are finding out, I know." Mrs. Lessingham displayed good nature in her intercourse with the Denyers. She smiled in private, and of course breathed to Cecily a word of warning; but the family entertained her, and Madeline she came really to like. With Mrs. Denyer she compared notes on the Italy of other days. "A sad, sad change!" Mrs. Denyer was wont to sigh.
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