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Updated: June 14, 2025
"It's perfectly true," muttered Mark, moistening his lips, "that Carrissima came to Golfney Place and saw me " "Saw you saw you with Bridget in your arms! Good Lord!" exclaimed Jimmy, gazing down at Mark's bowed head. Rising from his chair, Mark gripped one lapelle of his frock coat in each hand as he paced the small room.
So Sybil expressed her willingness to fall in with Jimmy's wishes; she would go to Blackheath in the motor-car early the following morning, inconvenient as the expedition would be; and she would bring Miss Rosser back to Golfney Place.
"I can't help seeing," Mark continued, "that I am responsible in a way. If I hadn't mentioned her name at Phoebe's that evening I was late for dinner you would never have gone to Golfney Place, and Bridget would never have crossed Colonel Faversham's path." "How devoutly I wish she hadn't," said Carrissima. "But what can anybody do? It is a day after the fair.
During the last few days his mind, chiefly owing to lapse of time, had been easier concerning Bridget. Without being demonstratively affectionate, she appeared as cheerful as ever, so that he reached Number 5, Golfney Place at half-past three this afternoon with every hope of spending an agreeable hour or two in her presence.
On her way home, close to Golfney Place, she met Mark, and wondered whether she should stop if he showed no sign of doing so. She had never passed him by before, and in spite of a lingering sense of injustice, and even indignation, she had not the heart to let him go on without a word. She felt confident, however, that he would not have spoken if she had not taken the matter out of his hands.
Armed with this peace-offering, Colonel Faversham reached Golfney Place at eleven o'clock on the morning after Mark Driver's unfortunate visit. "Oh dear!" cried Bridget, as she clasped the belt round her waist, "how kind you always are to me!" "I don't see why you should sigh about that," answered Colonel Faversham.
"You see, you are Jimmy's sister," said Bridget, with a charming air of entreaty, and in spite of her former equivocal opinion of Miss Rosser, Sybil could not refrain from answering "My dear, you must let me be yours." Bridget, it appeared, was to return to lunch in Upper Grosvenor Street, and Jimmy, having already spoken to Miller, would escort her to No. 5, Golfney Place during the afternoon.
"I wonder," said Carrissima, "whether it would be possible to have it engraved by to-morrow morning." "I think that can be managed," returned Mr. Donaldson. "You might send it to Golfney Place with my card," suggested Carrissima, taking one from her case. "It shall be there quite early, madam," said the salesman, making a note in a long, slim book.
A rapid examination showed that the patient was seriously ill, and having telephoned for a trained nurse and written a prescription, Mark left the house, with a promise to come again during the afternoon. On his way home after this second visit at about four o'clock, he walked past the end of Golfney Place, and, a few yards farther on, saw a motor-car in which was seated Bridget.
"Good-morning, colonel!" said Miller, but although his tone was even more suave and respectful than usual, Colonel Faversham fancied he detected in it something ironic. No doubt the man had formed his own opinion as to what was going on; but, thank goodness, nobody outside Number 5, Golfney Place had the faintest suspicion of his engagement! He quite understood that this was broken beyond repair.
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