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Updated: June 18, 2025
She had made the business infinitely prettier than it would have been without her, added music and flowers and ices, a finer charm, converting it into a kind of heroic "function," the form of sport most dangerous. It had been a garden-party, say, with one's life at stake from pressure of the crowd.
And he related in a few words the little scene that had taken place at Errington Manor on the night of the garden-party, when his playing on the organ had moved her to such unwonted emotion. Philip heard him in moody silence, how had it happened, he wondered, that others, comparative strangers, had observed that Thelma looked unhappy, while he, her husband, had been blind to it?
Her features were regular, and did not lack sweetness; yet, unless an observer were mistaken, the last year or two had emphasised a certain air of conscious superiority, perchance originating in the schoolroom. She had had one child; it struggled through a few months of sickly life, and died of convulsions during its mother's absence at a garden-party.
Ida was quiet, and glancing at her presently, Abraham found her eyes fixed upon him. "Grandfather," she said, in her gentlest voice, "will you let me give a garden-party some day next week?" "A party?" Mr. Woodstock raised his brows in astonishment. "Who are you going to invite?" "You'll think it a strange notion. I wonder whether I can make it seem as delightful to you as it does to me.
I knew that the elaborate curl over his right eyebrow was not guaranteed to survive a sea-mist. "Never, never again, will I take you to a garden-party. Never . . . You behaved abominably . . . What did the Caspian see?" A shade of genuine regret for misused opportunities passed over Reginald's face. "After all," he said, "I believe an apricot tie would have gone better with the lilac waistcoat."
There were spinster ladies in small villas at Blentmouth who watched the illness and the courtship as keenly as though they were to succeed the sick Lady Tristram and to marry the new Lord. Yet a single garden-party in the year would represent pretty accurately their personal stake in the matter. If you live on crumbs, a good big crumb is not to be despised.
Mary allowed herself to venture on getting Lady Kenton's counsel on the duties of household headship that would fall on her; and instead of being terrified at the great garden-party and dinner-party to be held at Coles Kenton, eagerly availed herself of instruction in the details of their management.
Any form of sociability was welcome to him an impromptu garden-party in Malcolm's honour met with his decided approval. "David must give us our revenge," he said, chuckling with glee at the idea. But Malcolm did not respond to this. He felt inwardly provoked at the whole affair, and regretted that he had promised to remain another day.
Philip remembered the garden-party, and saw that they could never be surmounted. The Deemster who slapped the conventions in the face would suffer for it. He would be taboo to half the life of the island in public an official, in private a recluse. An icy picture rose before his mind's eye of the woman who would be his wife in her relations with the ladies he had just left.
She and the Professor were just sitting down to an early breakfast on the morning of the garden-party, which had been arranged for the day but one after the arrival of the Huysmans, when the post came in. There were a good many letters for both, for each had many interests in life.
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