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It was enough for me without casting the worry upon others. Yet I could not see Charlotte without calling on my parents. As soon as possible I crossed the street to the Fentons'. Someone had seen me in town. Charlotte was waiting. She was the same beautiful girl I had known so long; the blue eyes, the blonde, wavy mass of hair, the laughing mouth and the gladness. But she was not glad now.
Yates retire, with a lingering "good-night," but the Balfours and the Fentons are guests of the house. They go in, and the lamps are lighted, while the "little feller Paul B. by name" is carried on his happy father's shoulder to his bed up stairs. Finally, Jim comes down, having seen his pet asleep, and finds the company talking about Talbot.
The hours dragged by slowly. The Marlow house had seemed dull; but the Fentons' was almost unbearable. Ida meant to be kind; but, perhaps, because she tried to show her intention, she only succeeded in making Jimmy feel his position as a poor relation.
Now, he was amongst his own people, a Grierson come back to the Griersons; and yet he hated it all, because he had reached the point of wanting to share everything with Lalage, whom he could never hope to introduce into houses like the Fentons'. The long meal came to an end at last, and they went into the smoking-room, where Ida joined them. Mrs.
Since breakfast the Fentons had been dejectedly discussing the matter together. "Why doesn't she break off this miserable engagement with Trenby?" asked Ralph moodily. "She won't. I think she would have done if if for Peter's sake. But not otherwise. She's got some sort of fixed notion that it wouldn't be playing fair."
There was also abundance of pretty and of striking faces, and the crowd had that pleasant look of familiarity which one gets from recognizing acquaintances all through it. One of the first persons the Fentons saw was Ethel Mott, who, under the chaperonage of Mrs. Frostwinch, was making the tour of the gallery with Kent, and paying far more attention to her companion than to the pictures.
It was an inspiriting sight to him then and one which well rewarded him for his labours, since there was not a class from gentlemen to labourers who was not represented there. The FitzHerberts, the Babingtons, the Fentons these, with their servants and guests, accounted for perhaps half of the folk.
Then began the bustle. A group of ladies, FitzHerberts and Fentons, entered, so soon as the priest gave the signal by tapping on the parlour wall, bearing all things necessary for the altar; and it was astonishing what fine things these were; so that by the time that the priest was ready to vest, the place was transformed.
Rudolph Musgrave sat all night beside the body. He had declined to speak with innumerable sympathetic cousins Vartreys and Fentons and Allardyces and Musgraves, to the fifth and sixth remove who had come from all quarters, with visiting-cards and low-voiced requests to be informed "if there is anything we can possibly do." Rudolph Musgrave sat all night beside the body.
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