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It seemed to him vaguely that lady secretaries should not possess real pearls; or if they did possess them, should carefully keep them to themselves. He accepted a cup of tea from his daughter, and drank it absently before he asked: 'Where's Desmond? 'He went to lunch at Fallerton at the camp. Captain Byles asked him. I think afterwards he was going to play in a match.
He steadied himself a moment by a hand on Elizabeth's table. She went up to him, and took his other hand, which closed an instant on hers. 'I thought so, he said, under his breath. 'I knew it.... Telephone, please, to Fallerton for the taxi, while I go and speak to Forest. She gave the order and then hastened into the hall where Mrs. Gaddesden was busy trimming a hat.
'Good-night, my dearest, dearest Arthur! Don't be too much disappointed in me. I shall grow up some day. A few days later the Squire came back from Fallerton to find nobody in the house, apparently, but himself. He went through the empty hall and the library, and shut himself up there. He carried an evening paper crumpled in his hand.
The well-known voice struck some profound response in Elizabeth. She turned to him. How changed, how haggard, was the aspect! 'Martin that's the surgeon we've brought with us wants something from Fallerton at once. Renshaw's here, but he can't be spared for telephoning. Come, please! But before she could pass through the door, it was filled by a procession.
Mannering roughly broke in upon him. 'What was that you said about ploughing up the park? 'We ask you to break up fifty acres of it near the Fallerton end, and perhaps some other bits elsewhere. This first bit is so far from the house you'll never notice it; and the land ought to do very well if it's properly broken and trampled down.
There was an odd note in the speaker's voice. 'Why don't you join Beryl in her canteen work? said Sir Henry abruptly. 'I don't know. 'She wants help badly. She passes your gate on her way to Fallerton. She could pick you up, and bring you back. 'Yes, said Pamela. There was a pause.
She had those ash trees to look after! She was tolerably sure that a thorough search would comb out a good many more for the Air Board from the Squire's woods than had yet been discovered. The Fallerton hospital wanted more accommodation. There was an empty house belonging to the Squire, which she had already begun, before her absence, with his grudging permission, to get ready for the purpose.
The journey had been one long and bitter endurance. And now Desmond was here his son Desmond lying for a few days in that white bed under the old roof. And afterwards a fresh grave in Fallerton churchyard a flood of letters which would be burnt unread and a world without Desmond. Meanwhile, in a corner of the hall, Chicksands and Pamela were sitting together hand in hand.
When the light began to come in he moved impatiently, asking for the newspapers. Elizabeth told him that old Perley had gone to meet them at the morning train at Fallerton, and would be out with them at the earliest possible moment. But when they came the boy turned almost angrily from them.
Every moment she expected to hear the Fallerton taxi draw up at the front door bringing Elizabeth Bremerton back to Mannering. She had been away more than a month. Mrs. Gaddesden went back in thought to the morning when it had been announced to the Squire by his pale and anxious secretary that she had had bad news of her invalid mother, and must go home at once.
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