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Updated: June 19, 2025
"You cannot have another thing to say, except that you consent and wish us happiness." "It is true you are of age, Stella," Canon Ebley allowed, "and if you like to take the law into your own hands, we cannot legally prevent you, as I have tried to explain this morning to your aunt and Eustace, but it is all very shocking and unusual, and very disturbing.
He wished the stranger to put down the Times, which he wanted himself or, at all events, remove his long legs and hidden body from such a near proximity to his niece; they could not say a word that he could not overhear, Canon Ebley mused. However, the unknown remained where he was, and turned a page of the paper with great deliberation.
Here Canon Ebley joined in, hoping to bring peace: "You have told Eustace what is in store for him to-night, have you not, Caroline, my dear?" he asked. "We have to put on our best and take our ladies to the Embassy to a rout, Eustace," he went on, genially. "There are a Russian Grand Duke and Duchess passing through, it appears, who are going to be entertained."
They looked a little out of place and felt it amid this more or less gay company. But the drains of the Grand Hotel were known to be beyond question, and, coming to Rome so late in the season, the Reverend Canon Ebley felt it was wiser to risk the contamination of the over-worldly-minded than a possible attack of typhoid fever.
Ebley would be extremely unlikely to allow Stella out of her sight in any case, he could not imagine how his fiancee and the Russian could have found a chance to speak and even a foreigner could not persuade a woman into this course of action in half an hour's talk at the Embassy!
Ebley's presence, Eustace had recounted more fully the interview he had had with Sasha Roumovski the night before. He was not a very accurate person and apt to color everything with his own prejudice, so Canon Ebley did not obtain a very clear idea of the Russian's arguments. They seemed to him to be very unorthodox and carnal and reprehensible from all points.
During these few seconds Stella was quite aware that he had never apparently looked at her. "I call such an appearance sacrilegious," Mrs. Ebley said. "A man has no right to imitate one of the blessed apostles in these modern days; it is very bad taste." Stella Rawson woke the next day with some sense of rebellion. There came with the rest of her post a letter from her betrothed.
She had an affection for her aunt, who had always been kind to her in a hard, cold way, and she was deeply grieved at their estrangement, but there were forces in life which she knew now mattered more than any aunts in the world. Mrs. Ebley did not relent at the sound of the sobbing, but left the room, closing the door firmly after her.
"Not in the least," Miss Rawson said, and they clasped fond hands. "I would go away with you, Sasha, to the ends of the earth now at once, and never ask you a single question. And I should certainly die if I were forced to go back to Eustace Medlicott." "Then I suppose there is nothing more to be said," Canon Ebley stammered, upon which Stella again flung herself into his arms.
He seemed suddenly to see things as they were, and to realize that love had indeed come to his betrothed, though not for him, so he rose above the pain this conviction caused him and let justice have sway. He strode forward and joined the group. "You must not say that, Mrs. Ebley," he said, "since your husband seems satisfied, there must have been some proper explanation made.
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