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Pyecroft they had first seen: bland, oh, so bland, with that odd, elderish look of his. "Met him goin' down the servants' steps as we were goin' out, and he asked us " the officer was beginning. But Mr. Pyecroft was already crossing toward Matilda, smiling affectionately. "My dear Matilda!" He kissed her upon the cheek.
The bland, elderish, clerical look faded; the face grew strangely young, the right corner of his mouth twisted upward, and his right eyelid drooped in a prodigious, unreverend wink. "Friend," he remarked, "what's you two ladies' game?" "Our game?" Mrs. De Peyster repeated blankly. "Now don't try to come Miss Innocence over me," he said easily.
He had a confusingly contradictory face, had the Reverend Herbert E. Pyecroft for such she learned was his full name; a face customarily sedate and elderish, and then, almost without perceptible change, for swift moments oddly youthful; with a wide mouth, which would suddenly twist up at its right corner as though from some unholy quip of humor, and whose as sudden straightening into a solemn line would show that the unseemly humor had been exorcised.
How it could have come of that colorlessness, whether through long sickness or long residence in a tropical climate, was a question that perplexed another of the passengers, who would have expected to hear the lady speak any language in the world rather than English; and to whom her companion or attendant was hardly less than herself a mystery, being a dragon-like, elderish female, clearly a Yankee by birth, but apparently of many years' absence from home.
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