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Lady Eynesford admired Sir Robert because there was no smack of the young community about him; Miss Scaife conceded that point of view, but maintained that there was another: and from that other she ranked Mr. Medland above a thousand Sir Roberts. All this she explained to Alicia Derosne, after Lady Eynesford had retired in dudgeon, and while the Governor was closeted with the new Premier.
Lady Eynesford and Eleanor Scaife, attended by Captain Heseltine, occupied their appointed seats; the members of the Legislative Council overflowed from their proper pen and mingled with humbler folk in the public galleries; reporters wrote furiously, and an endless line of boys bearing their slips came and went. The great hour had arrived: the battle-field was reached at last.
See, I have written and apologised to Mr. Coxon." And Lady Eynesford kissed her and thanked heaven that they would soon have done with Mr. Coxon and all the rest. A few days later, Mr. Dick Derosne was walking in the Park at noon. He had been down to the Club and found no one there.
"We needn't discuss " began Lady Eynesford again, but this time Alicia was the interrupter. She spoke in a cold, hard way, very unlike her own. "If he won, you would all be at his feet." Coxon was justified in being angry at her almost savage scorn of him; regardless of anything except his wrong, he struck back the sharpest blow he could.
In the garden the question was settled without serious difference of opinion. If Sir Robert Perry really could not go on and Lady Eynesford was by no means prepared to concede even that then Mr. Puttock, bourgeois as he was, or Mr. Coxon, conceited and priggish though he might be, must come in. At any rate, the one indisputable fact was the impossibility of Mr. Medland.
Now, from Alicia's manner it was plain that the blow had fallen from an unfaltering hand. Suddenly the Chief Justice said, "Ah, it's settled one way or the other. Here come Medland and Miss Daisy." In the distance the Premier appeared, walking by the pony his daughter rode. Lady Eynesford turned to her husband and whispered appealingly, "Need they come here, Willie?"
Go and hear me abused." Lady Eynesford would have been none the happier for knowing that Alicia thought, and Medland found, a smile answer enough. It was the afternoon of the next day the Friday and Kirton was in some stir of bustle and excitement.
"We shall live to regret it," said Lady Eynesford, "but it shall be as you wish, Willie." So the Medlands came with the rest of the world to the flower-show, and were received with due ceremony and regaled with suitable fare.
Kilshaw's information as to the Governor's attitude had not been entirely incorrect, but, after an interview with the Premier, in which the latter explained his action, Lord Eynesford did not feel that more was required than a temperately expressed surprise and a hinted disapproval of the course adopted.
Imagine yourself on a pretty morning, in a pretty place, by a pretty girl, and let her be kind and you not a numskull, and there's half-a-dozen pages saved. It was, however, a little unfortunate that, at the last moment, when the third good-bye was being said, Lady Eynesford should come whirling by in her barouche. "The deuce!" said Dick under his breath. Lady Eynesford's features did not relax.
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