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I asked myself what Miss Anvoy meant by doing such things, but the only answer I arrived at was that Gravener was verily fortunate. She hadn't happened to tell him of her visit to Upper Baker Street, but she'd certainly tell him to-morrow; not indeed that this would make him like any better her having had the innocence to invite such a person as Mrs. Saltram on such an occasion.
I echoed as I recalled the extravagance commemorated in Adelaide's anecdote of Miss Anvoy and the thirty pounds. The thing I had been most sensible of in that talk with George Gravener was the way Saltram's name kept out of it.
"My relations with Miss Anvoy are not at an end," poor Gravener stammered. Again for an instant I thought. "The offer I propose to make you gives me the right to address you a question remarkably direct. Are you still engaged to Miss Anvoy?" "No, I'm not," he slowly brought out. "But we're perfectly good friends."
She feels indeed that she has become very British as if that, as a process, as a 'Werden, as anything but an original sign of grace, were conceivable; but it's precisely what makes her cling to the notion of the 'Fund' cling to it as to a link with the ideal." "How can she cling if she's dying?" "Do you mean how can she act in the matter?" Gravener asked. "That's precisely the question.
We went no further; I fancied she had become aware Gravener was looking at us. She turned back toward the knot of the others, and I said: "Dislike him as much as you will I see you're bitten." "Bitten?" I thought she coloured a little. "Oh it doesn't matter!" I laughed; "one doesn't die of it." "I hope I shan't die of anything before I've seen more of Mrs. Mulville."
Gravener the House !" Then she added: "I gather that her having come is exactly a sign that the marriage is a little shaky. If it were quite all right a self-respecting girl like Ruth would have waited for him over there." I noted that they were already Ruth and Adelaide, but what I said was: "Do you mean she'll have had to return to MAKE it so?"
"It's too bad I can't see him." "You mean Gravener won't let you?" "I haven't asked him. He lets me do everything." "But you know he knows him and wonders what some of us see in him." "We haven't happened to talk of him," the girl said. "Get him to take you some day out to see the Mulvilles." "I thought Mr. Saltram had thrown the Mulvilles over." "Utterly.
Saltram might never come back from the errand. No one knew better than George Gravener that that was a time when prompt returns counted double. If he therefore found our friend an exasperating waste of orthodoxy it was because of his being, as he said, poor Gravener, up in the clouds, not because he was down in the dust.
It was plainly not the question of her marriage that had brought her back. I greatly enjoyed this discovery and was sure that had that question alone been involved she would have stirred no step. In this case doubtless Gravener would, in spite of the House of Commons, have found means to rejoin her. It afterwards made me uncomfortable for her that, alone in the lodging Mrs.
This was probably rather late in the day, and the exact order doesn't signify. What had already occurred was some accident determining a more patient wait. George Gravener, whom I met again, in fact told me as much, but without signs of perturbation. Lady Coxon had to be constantly attended to, and there were other good reasons as well.
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