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"My poor little love!" he thought. "How much she has to learn before she can assume, with comfort to herself, the place for which I have designed her!" At the cottage Eily received him with rapture and affection, and every other feeling was banished from his mind.
A few days afterwards Danny Mann visited the rope-walk, and had a long conversation with Eily, and from that time the girl's character seemed to have undergone a change. Her recreations and her attire became gayer; but her cheerfulness of mind was gone.
"Good-bye, Eily: take care you don't stay out at night and catch cold, you know," said Sheila; and then, with another little nod and a smile, the young girl went down the path. "It is Eily-of-the-Ghosts, as they call her," said Sheila to Lavender as they went on: "the poor thing fancies she sees little people about the rocks, and watches for them.
Eily took the slice of bread offered her and gnawed it hungrily; she had tasted nothing since the previous evening, as her aunt objected to waste money on "them swindling refreshment rooms," and the stock of bread and cakes her mother had given her was soon exhausted. "Now, girl, if you start crying you'll find you make a great mistake. I brought you here to work, and work you must!
Why shouldn't I be wanting to buy one of the dresses off their backs for my sister?" "What a melting idea! You do, don't you, dear boy?" the flapper encouraged him. "I might. Come along, Miss Rolls. Come along, Eily. What about you, Rolls? Will you guide us?" "Let's wait till after lunch," said Ena. She hoped that it might disagree with everybody, and then they would not want to go.
Eily eyed her garments with envy; they were of dazzling crimson, plentifully besprinkled with jet; she wore a large hat trimmed with roses; a "diamond" brooch fastened her neck-ribbon, and a "golden" chain fell from neck to waist; but what Eily liked best of all was the thick, black fringe that covered her forehead; such "style" the simple peasant had never before beheld; if only her aunt would be generous she would buy just such a dress as that, but whether or not, the fringe could be had for nothing, and he should see that she could be as genteel as any one else, he need never be ashamed of her.
"Shure, you do not forget your own Eily the girl you made into the picthur, your colleen oge! But maybe it's the jiwils and the clothes that has changed me; it's mighty grand they make me, to be sure, but it was so you should not be ashamed of me I put them on. Arrah, shpake to me, and let me hear the sound of your voice!" She looked pleadingly into his eyes, but he was speechless.
"Alas! for education!" Selwyn laughed and turned to Gerald. "I hunted high and low for you before I came to Silverside. You found my note?" "Yes; I I'll explain later," said the boy, colouring. "Come ahead, Eily; Boots and I will take you on at tennis and Philip, too. We've an hour or so before luncheon. Is it a go?"
The old man, having obediently deposited the box in the region of upstairs, shuffled down again, and approached Eily gently. "Are you her niece, my poor girl?" he whispered, with a backward glance in the direction of his departed spouse. "I am, sorr," answered Eily; "I am come to help me aunt wid the claning and the lodgers." "Poor child! poor child!
He declared that he had always loved his master, but that from the moment of the assault a change had come over his love. "He had his revenge, an' I'll have mine," he said. "He doesn't feel for me, an' I won't feel for him. Write down Danny Mann for the murderer of Eily, an' write down Hardress Cregan for his adviser." He produced the certificate of Eily's marriage.
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