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Yet he had, and disloyally had lost her. Then her voice broke in again upon his reflections. "These, too, are yours. Will you take them, please?" She was pointing with her fan to the feathers upon the table. Feversham obediently reached out his hand, and then drew it back in surprise. "There are four," he said. Ethne did not reply, and looking at her fan Feversham understood.
"That's very kind of you, Mrs. Adair," Durrance exclaimed; "because, of course, there will be an interval." "A short one, no doubt," said Mrs. Adair. "Well, it's this way. If there's a chance that I may recover my sight, it would be better that I should seize it at once. Time means a good deal in these cases." "Then there is a chance?" cried Ethne.
However, I almost exclaimed aloud in my amazement, for the light from a window fell full on the figure ahead of me, and I recognised my cousin Ethne. She was sleep-walking, a habit she had had from her childhood, and which apparently she had never outgrown. For some minutes I stood there, undecided how to act, while she passed on down the stairs, out of sight. To wake her I knew would be wrong.
Durrance thought over that aspect of the question, and began to wonder. Calder might be right. Marriage with a blind man! It might, perhaps, be possible if upon both sides there was love, and the letter from Ethne proved did it not? that on both sides there was love. Besides, there were some trivial compensations which might help to make her sacrifice less burdensome.
Ethne and Sir Alister had left me there and returned to the house together, and, after their departure, those poor, dumb beasts had gathered round me in a way that was absolutely pathetic, licking and fondling my hands, as though apologising for their previous misconduct. Still, I understood.
She would have to face Ethne, and she dreaded the moment when her companion's frank eyes would rest quietly upon hers and her lips demand an explanation. It was consequently a relief to her at first that no outward change was visible in the relations of Ethne and Durrance.
Suddenly he ceased laughing, and stood stock-still with his eyes towards the open door of the church. In the doorway Ethne Eustace was standing. He put the dog down and slowly walked up the path towards her. She waited on the threshold without moving, without speaking. She waited, watching him, until he came close to her. Then she said simply: "Harry." She was silent after that; nor did he speak.
For without drugs he seemed to be behaving with no less dignity himself. His heart was beating very fast, but it was with a sort of excitement. He did not even think of Ethne at that moment; and certainly the great dread that his strong hope would never be fulfilled did not trouble him at all. He had his allotted part to play, and he just played it; and that was all.
I'm sure Ethne detected it too, for she kept glancing about her in a startled, mystified way." "And Sir Alister?" queried the General. "Do you mean to say he did not notice anything amiss?" I shrugged my shoulders. "He didn't appear to. I called attention myself to the singular attitude of the hounds, and he said quite casually: 'Dogs never do take to me much." Uncle Bob gave a short laugh.
Calder did not move, however; and he drew no breath of relief. Ethne stood at the drawing-room window of the house in Hill Street. Mrs. Adair sat in front of her tea-table. Both women were waiting, and they were both listening for some particular sound to rise up from the street and penetrate into the room. The window stood open that they might hear it the more quickly.
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