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It seemed as though all his devotion, ay, and he did not scruple to say to himself all his real gifts were to weigh as nothing against the cut of a coat and the "sit" of a cravat for to such elemental constituents his merciless and jealous analysis reduced poor Dick Derosne's attractions. Little recked Dick of Norburn's feelings in the glow of his triumph.
The episode of Dick Derosne's banishment had opened his eyes more fully to what the revelation might mean to his daughter; for, when he thought over the abrupt end that had been put to that romance, he could hardly fail to connect it with Benham or with Kilshaw. He shrank from the exposure to Daisy which he would have to undergo, and from the pain which he was doomed to inflict on her.
"It's a most unconstitutional and dangerous thing." And Kilshaw endorsed his chief's views in less measured tones. "If there's bloodshed, on his head be it! If he appeals to force, by Jove, he shall have it!" Amid all this ferment the Premier walked by, half hidden by Alicia Derosne's horse. "What is the excitement?" she exclaimed. "My last shot," he answered, smiling. "Good-bye.
She roused herself from her reverie and turned again to Coxon. She found him looking at her closely, with a bitter smile on his lips. She had not noticed that Eleanor had got out and accepted Sir John's escort for a stroll. She and Coxon were alone. "Miss Derosne's displeasure with me," he said, "is fully explained, isn't it?" "What do you mean?" she asked sharply.
His own experience and insight into temperament rose up and contradicted him, and Alicia Derosne's face drove the truth into his mind. Seeking for a hero, she had strangely, almost comically, he thought, made one of him. A swift and gentle disenchantment was the best that could be wished for her: so he told himself, but he did not wish it.
At the tone in which Lady Eynesford seemed to hurl his own name in his teeth, Coxon's rosy illusion vanished. He sat in gloomy silence, twisting his hat in his hand and waiting for Lady Eynesford to speak again. "You astonish me!" she said at last. "I made sure it was Eleanor." "Why is it astonishing?" he asked. "Surely Miss Derosne's attractions are sufficient to ?"
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