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Updated: May 14, 2025
A grand place, Richmond Park; and in that half-light wonderful, the deer moving so softly, you might have thought they were spirits. We were silent too great trees have that effect on me.... "Who can say when changes come? Like a shift of the wind, the old passes, the new is on you. I am telling you now of a change like that. Without a sign of warning, Eilie put her horse into a gallop.
He believed in a kind of luck that was to do everything for him, when the time came. One day he came in as I was giving Eilie her lesson. This was the first time they saw each other. After that he came more often, and sometimes stayed to dinner with us. I won't deny, sir, that I was glad to welcome him; I thought it good for Eilie.
"Well, sir," he went on, "we were married on her eighteenth birthday. It was a long time before Dalton became aware of our love. But one day he said to me with a very grave look: "'Eilie has told me, Brune; I forbid it. She's too young, and you're too old! I was then forty-five, my hair as black and thick as a rook's feathers, and I was strong and active.
It was written on the notepaper of an inn twelve miles up the river: these were the words. "'Eilie is mine. I am ready to meet you where you like." He went on with a painful evenness of speech. "When I read those words, I had only one thought to reach them; I ran down to the river, and chose out the lightest boat. Just as I was starting, Tor came running. 'You dropped this letter, sir, he said.
We had as many pupils as we liked it was the only part of my life when I have been able to save money. I had no chance to spend it. We gave lessons all day, and in the evening were too tired to go out. That year I had the misfortune to lose my dear mother. I became a rich man yes, sir, at that time I must have had not less than six hundred a year. "It was a long time before I saw Eilie again.
He started, and went on: "We had our lunch in the parlour I remember that room very well, for I spent the happiest days of my life afterwards in that inn.... We went into a meadow after lunch, and my friend Dalton fell asleep. A wonderful thing happened then. Eilie whispered to me, 'Let's have a jolly time. She took me for the most glorious walk. The river was close by.
I was at that passage the bull-fight you remember: "'Thrice sounds the clarion; lo! the signal falls, The din expands, and expectation mute' "when suddenly Eilie said: 'Suppose I were to leave off loving you? It was as if some one had struck me in the face. I jumped up, and tried to take her in my arms, but she slipped away; then she turned, and began laughing softly. I laughed too.
In the air was that feeling which comes to you once a year, in the spring, no matter where you may be, in a crowded street, or alone in a forest; only once a feeling like but I cannot describe it. "Eilie was sitting there. If you don't know, sir, I can't tell you what it means to be near the woman one loves. She was leaning on the windowsill, staring down into the street.
'My dear fellow, he answered, 'I've sent Eilie away to her old nurse's inn down on the river; she's better there at this time of year. We looked at each other, and I saw that he had sent her away because he didn't trust me. I was hurt by this. Illness spoils one. He was right, he was quite right, for all he knew about me was that I could fight and had got drunk; but I am very quick-tempered.
Perhaps I acted wrongly; I do not know what one ought to do in such a case; but before she went I said to her: 'Eilie, what is it? 'I don't know, she answered; and I kissed her that was all.... A month passed; I wrote to her nearly every day, and I had short letters from her, telling me very little of herself.
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