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Then he took out Mrs. Glenarm's letter, and read it through again, attentively, from beginning to end. Nothing could shake her devotion to him. Nothing would induce her to marry another man. There she was in her own words dedicated to him: waiting, with her fortune at her own disposal, to be his wife. Glenarm as a daughter-in-law, and to give Mrs. Glenarm's husband an income of his own.
Glenarm's representatives: a pass-word being determined on, as usual in such cases, by exchanging which the persons concerned could discover each other. However carefully the lawyers might set the snare whether they had their necessary "witness" disguised as an artist sketching in the neighborhood, or as an old woman selling fruit, or what not the wary eye of Bishopriggs detected it.
He still refuses, positively refuses, a provision which would make him an independent man for life." "Is it the provision he might have had, Lord Holchester, if ?" "If he had married Mrs. Glenarm? No. It is impossible, consistently with my duty to my mother, and with what I owe to the position in which my father's death has placed me, that I can offer him such a fortune as Mrs. Glenarm's.
Glenarm's nature was as shallow as it appeared to be on the surface, there was little hope of any sympathy establishing itself between them. "I wished to speak to you," she answered, "about something that happened while you were paying a visit in the neighborhood of Perth." The dawning surprise in Mrs. Glenarm's face became intensified into an expression of distrust.
Aweel! aweel! ye ha' gi'en me yer money, and I'll een gi' ye back gude measure for it, on my side. Mistress Glenarm's awa' in private incog, as they say to Jaffray Delamayn's brither at Swanhaven Lodge. Ye may rely on the information, and it's no' that easy to come at either. They've keepit it a secret as they think from a' the warld. Hech! hech!
Glenarm's marriage, in the interests of the reparation which Geoffrey owed to her, her conduct would only confirm Geoffrey's audacious assertion that she was a married woman already. For her own sake she might still have hesitated to move in the matter. But Blanche's interests were concerned as well as her own; and, for Blanche's sake, she had resolved on making the journey to Swanhaven Lodge.
Glenarm's visit, Lady Lundie felt herself at liberty to pave the way for the investigation on which she was determined to enter before she slept that night. "So much for the indoor arrangements," she said. "You must be my prime minister, Hopkins, while I lie helpless here. Is there any thing wanted by the people out of doors? The coachman? The gardener?" "I have just seen the gardener, my lady.
Glenarm's questions were not without their use. They gave Anne time to summon her resolution, and to feel the necessity of explaining herself. "I am speaking, I believe, to Mrs. Glenarm?" she began. The good-humored widow smiled and bowed graciously. "I have come here, Mrs. Glenarm by Mr. Delamayn's permission to ask leave to speak to you on a matter in which you are interested." Mrs.
In silence, Julius Delamayn paid her the trifling courtesy of opening it for her. She went out. Mrs. Glenarm's indignation suspended for the moment transferred itself to Julius. "If I have been entrapped into seeing that woman, with your approval," she said, haughtily, "I owe it to myself, Mr. Delamayn, to follow her example, and to leave your house."
Her hearty manner vanished under a veil of conventional civility, drawn over it suddenly. She looked at Anne. "Never at the best of times a beauty," she thought. "Wretchedly out of health now. Dressed like a servant, and looking like a lady. What does it mean?" The last doubt was not to be borne in silence by a person of Mrs. Glenarm's temperament.
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