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That was not enough for Mina; he must try Mina's things those she had set her heart on before she could be content. "But you never brought Cecily to see me," Lady Evenswood complained. "And I'm just going away now." That was it, Mina decided. Lady Evenswood had not seen Cecily. She had approached the Tristram puzzle from one side only, and had perceived but one aspect of it.
Twenty yards further on he halted once more of his own accord and fell into thought. Mina watched him till he moved on again, slowly making his way across the Mall and toward St James's Street. A great thing had happened to her she felt that; and she had news too that she was to tell to Southend and Lady Evenswood. There was considerable unsettlement in the Imp's mind that night.
What do you mean?" "Oh, tell him what I mean, George," laughed Lady Evenswood, turning to Southend. Mr Disney seemed genuinely resentful at the idea that he might frighten anybody. "Are you a member of the conference too, Southend?" "Well, yes, I I'm interested in the family."
If Harry's had been unconscious, if the mood had played the man, the deception was the more complete. He went to see Lady Evenswood one day; she had sent to express her desire for a talk before she fled to the country. She had much that was pleasant to say, much of the prospects of his success, of his "training-on," as easy-mannered Theo had put it to Mina Zabriska.
"Viscount Blentmouth indeed!" he growled. Southend's hands were out before him in signal of bewildered distress. Lady Evenswood looked at Harry, then, with a quick forward inclination of her body, past him; and she began to laugh. "Thank you very much, but I've been Tristram of Blent," ended Harry, now in a very fine fume, and feeling he had been much insulted.
An unusual timidity assaulted and conquered Mina when she found herself with the white-haired old lady who never seemed to do more than gently suggest and yet exercised command. Southend watched them together with keen amusement, while Lady Evenswood drew out of Mina some account of Cecily's feelings and of the scene at Blent. "Well, that's Tristram all over," sighed Lady Evenswood at the end.
"Any more than it mattered with Miss Iver," she pursued. "And he might just as likely have given Blent to Cecily in that way as in the way he actually did if she'd wanted it very much and and it had been a splendid thing for him to do." Lady Evenswood nodded gently. Southend raised his brows in a sort of protest against this relentless analysis.
"Well, what do you want?" he asked. Lady Evenswood was a woman of tact. "Really," she said, "it can't be done in this way, of course. If anything is to come before you, it must come before you regularly. I know that, Robert." The Imp had no tact. "Oh, no," she cried. "Do listen now, Mr Disney. Do promise to help us now!" Tact is not always the best thing in the world.
I almost wish we'd spoken of the marriage." "Couldn't you write to him?" "He wouldn't read it, George." "Telegraph then!" "It would really be worth trying considering how he took it." Lady Evenswood did not seem able to get over the Prime Minister's extraordinary affability. "Well, if he treats you like that great people like you and you're pleased, thank goodness I never met him alone!"
"You must come back to Merrion, dear," urged Cecily. Mina, who never meant to do anything else, embraced her friend and affectionately consented. It is always pleasant to do on entreaty what we might be driven to do unasked. Good-by had to be said to Lady Evenswood.
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