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Updated: June 26, 2025
'Since you ask, I can do no less than say I am, Stephen, continued Knight slowly, and with more resolution of manner than he had shown all the day. 'I am going to Endelstow to see if Elfride Swancourt is still free; and if so, to ask her to be my wife. 'So am I, said Stephen Smith. 'I think you'll lose your labour, Knight returned with decision.
Swancourt had alighted at the same time with Elfride, crossing over to the Row for a few minutes to speak to a friend he recognized there; and his wife was thus left sole tenant of the carriage. Now, whilst this little act had been in course of performance, there stood among the promenading spectators a man of somewhat different description from the rest.
'Well, he added, after a minute, 'I like you all the better, you know, for such moral precision, although I called it absurd. He went on with tender earnestness: 'For, Elfride, there is one thing I do love to see in a woman that is, a soul truthful and clear as heaven's light. I could put up with anything if I had that forgive nothing if I had it not.
Elfride at the organ regarded him with a throbbing sadness of mood which was fed by a sense of being far removed from his sphere.
'A fair vestal, throned in the west' Elfride Swancourt was a girl whose emotions lay very near the surface. Their nature more precisely, and as modified by the creeping hours of time, was known only to those who watched the circumstances of her history.
'If you will not press me now, I give my word to tell you the meaning of all this before the week is past. 'On your honour? 'On my honour. 'Very well. I have had a certain suspicion, you know; and I shall be glad to find it false. I don't like your manner lately. 'At the end of the week, I said, papa. Her father did not reply, and Elfride left the room.
Elfride passively assented, and they went from the lawn by a side wicket, and ascended into the open expanse of moonlight which streamed around the lonely edifice on the summit of the hill. The door was locked. They turned from the porch, and walked hand in hand to find a resting-place in the churchyard.
She writhed uneasily, as when a thought is swelling in the mind which must cause much pain at its deliverance in words. Elfride had known no more about the stings of evil report than the native wild-fowl knew of the effects of Crusoe's first shot. Now she saw a little further, and a little further still. The train stopped.
Then came a page expressive of his delight and hers at the reunion; and finally, the information that he would write to the shipping agents, asking them to telegraph and tell her when the ship bringing him home should be in sight knowing how acceptable such information would be. Elfride lived and moved now as in a dream.
'Why don't you object I mean, why do you feel so quiet about things? Elfride was half afraid to question him so, but her intense curiosity to see what the inside of literary Mr. Knight was like, kept her going on. Knight certainly did not mind being frank with her. Instances of this trait in men who are not without feeling, but are reticent from habit, may be recalled by all of us.
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