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The dinner passed in trivial conversation. She described Eastcliff, the hotel, the people. Bruce appeared absent-minded. After dinner she went to join him in the library, where he was smoking, and said: 'Well, Bruce, what is it you have to say to me? 'Good heavens, said Bruce, looking at his writing-desk, 'if I've spoken of this once I've spoken of it forty times! The inkstand is too full!
The next day Edith, Dilly and the nurse went back to London early in the afternoon. Edith, during the short journey home, sat with a smile on her lips, thinking of a little scene she had seen before leaving Eastcliff from the hall, known as the lounge, of the hotel.
"Deed, but the daughter's in luck, though." Lord Raa was waiting for me by the communion rail. His friend and witness, Mr. Eastcliff, wearing a carnation button-hole, was by his side, and his aunt, Lady Margaret, carrying a sheaf of beautiful white flowers, was standing near.
"Sorry, my lady, but it won't be convenient for his reverence to stay in the house to-night," she said. "Why so?" I said. Eastcliff, and we don't know how soon they may arrive." I felt myself flushing up to the eyes at the woman's impudence, and it added to my anger that Alma herself was standing at the head of the stairs, looking on and listening.
I had no friends of my own within reach, and to my deep if secret mortification no woman of my husband's circle called upon me. But a few of his male friends were constantly with us, including Mr. Eastcliff, who had speedily followed us from Ellan, and a Mr.
Obviously he cared for the other woman, and if, like his friend Eastcliff, he had been rich enough to please himself, he would have married her; but being in debt, and therefore in need of an allowance, he was marrying me in return for my father's money. It was shocking. It was sinful. I could not believe that my father, the lawyers and the Bishop knew anything about it.
She thought that her friend talked like that so as to give the impression that she was not a fixture; that she was much sought after and had many friends, one or two of whom might insist on her leaving the Ottleys soon. Aylmer was at the little Eastcliff station to meet them.
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