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Glenarm's devotion still offered to him. Never! He would go back to the books. He was not at the end of them. The slightest hint in the pages which were still to be read might set his sluggish brain working in the right direction. The way to be rid of her, without exciting the suspicion of any living creature, in the house or out of it, was a way that might be found yet.
Glenarm's contemplated marriage had produced no such effect on her as Sir Patrick had supposed: it had found no love for Geoffrey left to wound, no latent jealousy only waiting to be inflamed. Her object in taking the journey to Perth was completed when her correspondence with Geoffrey was in her own hands again.
Glenarm. "Well?" she began, eagerly, "what news?" The narrative of her ladyship's discoveries recited at full length; and the announcement of her ladyship's resolution declared in the most uncompromising terms raised Mrs. Glenarm's excitement to the highest pitch. "You go to town on Saturday?" she said. "I will go with you.
Glenarm's hand flew out with the stealthy rapidity of a cat's paw, to seize and destroy it. Quick as she was, her rival was quicker still. For an instant they faced each other breathless one with the letter held behind her; one with her hand still stretched out. At the same moment before a word more had passed between them the glass door opened; and Julius Delamayn appeared in the room.
She folded it and put it in the pocket of her dress. Then turned to go and stopped at the door. "One thing more," she added. "Do you know Mrs. Glenarm's present address?" "Ye're no' reely going to Mistress Glenarm?" "That is no concern of yours. You can answer my question or not, as you please." "Eh, my leddy! yer temper's no' what it used to be in the auld times at the hottle.
She took up the domestic ledger and the kitchen report; corrected the butcher; cautioned the cook; and disposed of all arrears of domestic business before Hopkins was summoned again. Having, in this way, dextrously prevented the woman from connecting any thing that her mistress said or did, after Mrs. Glenarm's departure, with any thing that might have passed during Mrs.
The proof was contained in two letters exchanged between the parties, and signed by their names; and the correspondence was placed at Mrs. Glenarm's disposal, on two conditions, as follows: First, that she should offer a sufficiently liberal price to induce the present possessor of the letters to part with them.
Glenarm's purely commonplace and purely material beauty, which would have struck an observant and a cultivated man, was the curious girlishness of her look and manner. No stranger speaking to this woman who had been a wife at twenty, and who was now a widow at twenty-four would ever have thought of addressing her otherwise than as "Miss."
He has hitherto been personally distinguished in these pages as the self-appointed father of Anne Silvester and the humble servant of Blanche at the dance at Swanhaven Lodge. He now dawns on the view in amicable relations with a third lady and assumes the mystic character of Mrs. Glenarm's "Friend in the Dark."
Brinkworth was a private marriage. Of course, Sir Patrick knew nothing about it!" Julius owned that this might be possible, and made a second attempt to lead the angry lady back to the piano. Useless, once more! Though she shrank from confessing it to herself, Mrs. Glenarm's belief in the genuineness of her lover's defense had been shaken.
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