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"I thought it rather a bold proceeding, Lady Loring," the Major replied. "But as the General's widow turned out to be a lady, in the best sense of the word, Miss Eyrecourt's romantic adventure has justified itself. I wouldn't recommend her to run the same risk a second time." "I suppose you know what Romayne thinks of it?" "Not yet. I have been too busy to call on him since I have been in town.
A man of headlong disposition, in my place, would have probably spoken of Miss Eyrecourt's marriage to Romayne at his first meeting with Winterfield, and would have excited their distrust, and put them respectively on their guard, without obtaining any useful result.
The first step toward attaining this object was to discover Mrs. Eyrecourt's present address. Stella would certainly know it and Father Benwell felt a just confidence in his capacity to make the young lady serviceable, in this respect, to the pecuniary interests of the Church. After an interval of a quarter of an hour, Lady Loring and Stella entered the gallery by the library door.
The day may yet come when nothing will interpose between us and failure but my knowledge of events in Miss Eyrecourt's life. For the present, there is no more to be said. Two days after Father Benwell had posted his letter to Rome, Lady Loring entered her husband's study, and asked eagerly if he had heard any news of Romayne. Lord Loring shook his head.
Eyrecourt's sense of injury urges her to indulge in violent measures she is eager to place her deserted daughter under the protection of the law; to insist on a restitution of conjugal rights or on a judicial separation.
Then let us go to the billiard-room; and as I am the worst of bad players, I will ask you to help me to beat your accomplished husband." On the afternoon of the next day, Mrs. Eyrecourt's maid arrived at Ten Acres with a note from her mistress. "Dearest Stella Matilda must bring you my excuses for to-day. I don't in the least understand it, but I seem to have turned lazy.
Eyrecourt's maid disturbed her mistress over the second volume of the novel by entering the room with a letter. "For me?" Stella asked, looking round from the window. "No, ma'am for Mrs. Eyrecourt." The letter had been brought to the house by one of Lady Loring's servants. In delivering it he had apparently given private instructions to the maid.
I found mother and daughter together in the drawing-room. It was one of Mrs. Eyrecourt's days of depression. Her little twinkling eyes tried to cast on me a look of tragic reproach; she shook her dyed head and said, "Oh. Winterfield, I didn't think you would have done this! Stella, fetch me my smelling bottle." But Stella refused to take the hint.
"I understand you," said Romayne. "Mr. Winterfield's marriage at Brussels " "Which the English law," Father Benwell interposed, "declares to be annulled by the marriage before the registrar, stands good, nevertheless, by the higher law of the Church. Mr. Winterfield is Miss Eyrecourt's husband, as long as they both live.
His welcome was the perfection of unassuming politeness. He asked for the last news of "poor Mrs. Eyrecourt's health," with the sympathy of a true friend. "I had the honor of drinking tea with Mrs. Eyrecourt, some little time since," he said. "Her flow of conversation was never more delightful it seemed impossible to associate the idea of illness with so bright a creature.
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