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But her feelings were much more acute when she came to perceive that she had damaged her own affairs by the hint of a menace which she had thrown out. Business is business, and must take precedence of all sentiment and romance in this hard world in which bread is so necessary. Of that Madam Gordeloup was well aware.
Good-by, Madam Gordeloup; good-by." There was no escape for him, so Doodles put on his hat and prepared to walk away to Mount Street with the Spy under his arm the Spy as to whose avocations, over and beyond those of her diplomatic profession, he had such strong suspicions!
The place had become odious to her. Bad as was her solitude in London, with Sophie Gordeloup to break it, and, perhaps, with Sophie's brother to attack her, it was not so bad as the silent desolation of Ongar Park. Never again would she go there, unless she went there, in triumph as Harry's wife.
"He means a prison," said Doodles. "Prison! I know who is most likely to be in a prison. Tell me of a prison! Is he a minister of state that he can send out order for me to be made prisoner? Is there lettres de cachet now in England? I think not. Prison, indeed!" "But really, Madam Gordeloup, you had better go-you had, indeed," said Archie. "You too you bid me go?
Hugh believed in little but what he himself saw, and usually kept a very firm grasp upon his money. "That Madam Gordeloup is always with Julia," Archie said, trying the way, as it were, before he told his plan. "Of course she will help her brother's views." "I'm not so sure of that. Some of these foreign women ain't like other women at all. They go deeper a doosed sight deeper."
In his dilemma he did at last go to Bolton Street, and there found that Lady Ongar had left town for three or four days. The servant said that she had gone, he believed, to the Isle of Wight; and that Madam Gordeloup had gone with her. She was to be back in town early in the following week.
And the chicken and the bread sauce, and the sweetbread, and the champagne were there, all very good of their kind; for Sophie Gordeloup liked such things to be good, and knew how to indulge her own appetite, and to coax that, of another person. Some little satisfaction Lady Ongar received from the fact that she was not alone; but the satisfaction was not satisfactory.
She had undertaken to be back in London early in May, by appointment with her lawyer, and had unfortunately communicated the fact to Madame Gordeloup. Four or five days before she was due in Bolton Street, her mindful Sophie, with unerring memory, wrote to her, declaring her readiness to do all and anything that the most diligent friendship could prompt.
"And am I to propose it to her first?" "Well; I don't know. Perhaps as you are so clever, it might be as well." "And at once?" "Yes, certainly; at once. You see, Madam Gordeloup, there may be so many buzzing about her." "Exactly; and some of them perhaps will have more than twenty pounds handy. Some will buzz better than that."
Clavering had found himself to be somewhat awkwardly situated while Madam Gordeloup was thus explaining the causes of her having come unannounced into the room; as soon, therefore, as he found it practicable, he took his leave. "Julia," he said, "as Madam Gordeloup is with you, I will now go." "But you will let me see you soon?" "Yes, very soon; that is, as soon as I return from Clavering.
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