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The old woman accompanied Sue to her temporary quarters, and helped her to unpack. Among other things she laid out a night-gown tastefully embroidered. "Oh I didn't know THAT was put in!" said Sue quickly. "I didn't mean it to be. Here is a different one." She handed a new and absolutely plain garment, of coarse and unbleached calico. "But this is the prettiest," said Mrs. Edlin.
Edlin having left. Arabella inquired how he thought her husband was now, and seeing that the doctor looked ruffled, asked him to take something. He assented. "I'll bring it to you here in the passage," she said. "There's nobody but me about the house to-day." She brought him a bottle and a glass, and he drank. Arabella began shaking with suppressed laughter.
But he checked his impulse to kiss her, remembering her start of yesterday, which unpleasantly lingered in his mind. Gillingham joined them, and they left the house, Widow Edlin continuing steadfast in her refusal to assist in the ceremony. "Where is the church?" said Sue.
It is a dismal business to you, and that makes it so to me!" "It is unpleasantly like that other morning that's all," she murmured. "Let us go on now." They started arm in arm for the office aforesaid, no witness accompanying them except the Widow Edlin. The day was chilly and dull, and a clammy fog blew through the town from "Royal-tower'd Thame."
Sue seemed relieved, and hurried back to Mrs. Edlin's chamber. "Are you in bed, Mrs. Edlin?" she asked. "No, dear," said the widow, opening the door. "I be old and slow, and it takes me a long while to un-ray. I han't unlaced my jumps yet." "I don't hear him! And perhaps perhaps " "What, child?" "Perhaps he's dead!" she gasped.
"Well, I don't mind her coming. You can have her here if you like." "I don't wish to see her again." "Oh that's a change!" "And don't tell her anything about me that I'm ill, or anything. She has chosen her course. Let her go!" One day he received a surprise. Mrs. Edlin came to see him, quite on her own account.
We are resolved to see no more plays till Whitsuntide, we having been three days together. Met Mr. Sanchy, Smithes; Gale, and Edlin at the play, but having no great mind to spend money, I left them there. And so home and to supper, and then dispatch business, and so to bed. 3rd. At home and at the office all day. At night to bed. 4th.
But " She remained with her face in the bed-clothes, and Mrs. Edlin left the room. Phillotson in the interval had gone back to his friend Gillingham, who still sat over the supper-table. They soon rose, and walked out on the green to smoke awhile. A light was burning in Sue's room, a shadow moving now and then across the blind.
The one man who'd be her friend the obstinate creature won't allow to come near her. What first put her into this mood o' mind, I wonder!" "I can't tell. Not I certainly. It is all voluntary on her part. Now that's all I have to say." Phillotson spoke stiffly. "You've turned round, Mrs. Edlin. It is unseemly of you!" "Well. I knowed you'd be affronted at what I had to say; but I don't mind that.
Edlin don't be frightened at my rambling I've got to talk to myself lying here so many hours alone she was once a woman whose intellect was to mine like a star to a benzoline lamp: who saw all MY superstitions as cobwebs that she could brush away with a word. Then bitter affliction came to us, and her intellect broke, and she veered round to darkness.
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