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Gracedieu's extraordinary conduct toward him puzzled us all. The mode of discovery which dear Elizabeth suggested by letter, at that time, appears to be the mode which she is following now. When I asked why, she said: 'Philip may return to Euneece; the Minister may recover and will be all the more likely to do so if he tries Massage.
Gracedieu's health. Miss Jillgall introduced me, as an old and dear friend of the Minister, and left us together in the dining-room. "What do I think of Mr. Gracedieu?" he said, repeating the first question that I put. "Well, sir, I think badly of him." Entering into details, after that ominous reply, Mr. Wellwood did not hesitate to say that his patient's nerves were completely shattered.
Then what, in Heaven's name, was the Minister afraid of? His voice dropped to a whisper. He said: "I am afraid of the women." Who were the women? Two of them actually proved to be the servants employed in Mr. Gracedieu's house, at the bygone time when he had brought the child home with him from the prison!
Gracedieu's memory, it may be safer to say for he is sometimes irritable, poor dear where he won't know anything about it." With that she told the lamentable story of the desertion of Eunice. In silence I listened, from first to last. How could I trust myself to speak, as I must have spoken, in the presence of a woman?
Gracedieu's cousin Miss Jillgall. Proud indeed to make the acquaintance of a gentleman distinguished in the service of his country or perhaps I ought to say, in the service of the Law. The Governor offers hospitality to prisoners. And who introduces prisoners to board and lodging with the Governor? the Law. Beautiful weather for the time of year, is it not? May I ask have you seen your room?"
Gracedieu's infatuated devotion to the memory of his wife should have blinded him to the betrayal of Helena's parentage, which met his eyes every time he entered his study. But that I should have been too stupid to discover what he had failed to see, was a wound dealt to my self-esteem which I was vain enough to feel acutely. Mrs.
"Not if he is asleep as I left him." Miss Jillgall shook her head ominously. "The safe way is this way," she said. "Come with me." My ever-helpful guide led me to my room well out of Mr. Gracedieu's hearing, if he happened to be awake at the other end of the passage. Having opened the door, she paused on the threshold.
In the other case, Elizabeth had helped her agent by referring him to a Birth, advertised in the customary columns of the Times newspaper. Even here, there was a fatal obstacle. The name of the place in which Mr. Gracedieu's daughter had been born was not added, as usual. I still tried to be useful. Had my friend known the Minister's wife? My friend had never even seen the Minister's wife.
The revival of Mr. Gracedieu's spirits indicated a temporary change only, and was already beginning to pass away. The eyes which had looked lovingly at Eunice began to look languidly now: his head sank on the pillow with a sigh of weak content. "My pleasure has been almost too much for me," he said. "Leave me for a while to rest, and get used to it."
Pooh! she went with an eye to her own interests; and she means to make the great man useful. Thank God, I can stop that!" She checked herself there, and looked suspiciously at the door of Mr. Gracedieu's room. "In the interest of our conversation," she whispered, "we have not given a thought to the place we have been talking in. Do you think the Minister has heard us?"
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