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Professor Theobald said that it was a dispensation of Providence which intended the human race for social life. Lady Engleton upbraided the author of the cynical utterance. "Which of us can dare to face his own basest self?" the culprit demanded.
They were all spinning round and round, in a dizzy little circle, all whirling and toiling and troubling, to no purpose. Even Lady Engleton, who appeared so bright and satisfied, had her secret misery which spoilt her life.
Let us have the issue before us in black and white. Engleton, are you well enough to understand what I say?" "Perfectly," Engleton answered. "Go on." "Will you sign a retraction of your charges against us, and pledge your word of honour never to repeat them, or to make any complaint, formal or otherwise, as to your detention here." "I'm d d if I will!" Engleton answered.
It was an awkward fact, that she never could see Mrs. Jordan's majestic form and noble bonnet without feeling the same overwhelming impulse to laugh. "This is disgraceful conduct!" cried Lady Engleton. Hadria was clearly in one of her most reckless moods to-day. "You have led me on, and must take the consequences!" she cried.
Poor girls. They are morally skinned, in such a way as to make contact with Fact a veritable torture, and then suddenly they are sent forth defenceless into Life to be literally curry-combed." "They adjust themselves," said Lady Engleton. "Adjust themselves!" Hadria vindictively flicked off the head of a dandelion with her parasol.
She feared that Hadria spent too many hours over her composing; she sat up at night, perhaps. What good did all this composing do? Nobody ever heard of it. Such a sad pity that she could not see the folly of persevering in the fruitless effort. Lady Engleton was sure that Hadria saw too few people, lived too monotonous a life.
Major Forrest asked sharply. "Do you think that we have made away with Engleton? Why should we? We may be the adventurers you delicately suggest, but at least we should have an object in our crimes. Engleton had not a ten-pound note of ready money with him. I know that for a fact, because I lent him some money to pay his chauffeur's wages when he sent him away."
"My dear Kate," he said, "we are willing to admit, Forrest and I, that we are beaten. You can do exactly what you like with us except leave us here. Our little joke with Engleton is at an end. Perhaps we carried it too far. If so, we must face the penalty. Take him away if you like. Personally I do not find this place attractive." Kate lowered her revolver and turned to Engleton.
Something in her manner had changed. Claude Moreton felt it instantly. He spoke of leaving Craddock Place, but he lingered on. The house had begun to empty. Lady Engleton wished to have some time to herself. She was painting a new picture. But Professor Theobald remained. Joseph Fleming went away to stay with his married sister.
"Oh, it is not a question of squeamishness, it is the insult of the thing. One insult after another, and everyone stands round, looking respectable." Lady Engleton laughed and said something to lead her companion on. She liked to listen to Mrs. Temperley when she was thoroughly roused. "It is the hideous mixture of the delicately civilized with the brutally savage that makes one sick.
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