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Updated: June 3, 2025
"I am going to bed," Enid said, wearily. "Goodnight." She went noiselessly upstairs, and Henson passed into the library. He was puzzled over this sudden end of Christiana Henson. He was half inclined to believe that she was not dead at all; he belonged to the class of men who believe nothing without proof. Well, he could easily ascertain that for himself.
And indeed his state of excitement and agitation appeared nothing less than pitiable to the friend who remembered the self-complacent young orator, the budding legislator of early April. "You are afraid of being misunderstood?" "If I attack her father, as mother wishes me to attack him," said the young man, with emphasis, looking up, "Enid Glenwilliam will never speak to me again.
Then he looked around, and beheld Enid, and he welcomed her gladly. "Geraint," said Gwalchmai, "come thou and see Arthur; he is thy lord and thy cousin." "I will not," said he, "for I am not in a fit state to go and see any one." Thereupon, behold, one of the pages came after Gwalchmai to speak to him.
"Convinced that there is more in this matter than his love for you. That there is also " With a swift movement Enid stopped him. She was quivering violently, but she held her head high. "Yes," she said, distinctly. "Yes, you are quite right. There is more in this matter than his love for me. There is also my love for him!" Her eyes were blazing; her heart was beating fast.
But while Enid understood well enough the necessity for speed, she had no breath to expend expressing her appreciation of Pretty's delicate position. She was too frightened to run even as well as she knew how, and she was going at a gait that was neither very fast nor very economical of muscle and breath.
The whole party had been having tea under the great beech-tree on the lawn, and after a time Enid and Hubert were left alone by the others. They chatted gaily together, he answering her eager questions about London and Paris and Berlin, she catechising him with an eagerness which amused and interested him. Presently they saw Dick running towards them across the lawn.
It was true that the man had found a white feather but he had also learnt that when Enid Orlebar had arrived at Hill Street she had been wearing a white feather boa! "It is not curious, after all," he said reflectively, "that the police should have dismissed the affair as a death from natural causes. At the inquest no suspicion whatever was aroused.
But he was lonely, all the same. He lavished upon the little house the solicitude and cherishing care that Enid seemed not to need. He stood over the carpenters urging the greatest nicety in the finish of closets and cupboards, the convenient placing of shelves, the exact joining of sills and casings.
Once initiated into the refinements of life, he took to them naturally. Miss Isobel and Miss Enid Bartlett had given him the cue, and Mr. Chester was keeping him up to his standard. Between him and the latter had sprung up a queer friendship verging on intimacy.
There was something almost like fear in the look; and it was noticeable that neither the General nor Enid spoke to invite him into the room. "You may come in," Florence said at last, very coldly almost as one might speak to a grown person whom one had strong reason to dislike "but you cannot stay more than five minutes. You are not wanted here."
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