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But when they were once more alone, Hallin put out his hand and touched his companion. "What is it, dear Ned?" "Only one thing more, before we leave it. Is that all that stands between you now the whole? You spoke to me once in the summer of feeling angry, more angry than you could have believed. Of course, I felt the same. But just now you spoke of its all being your fault.
Once, as the talk ran on, Hallin saw him raise his grey eyes to the girl beside him, who certainly did not notice it, and was not thinking of him. There was a curious pain and perplexity in the expression, but something else too a hunger, a dependence, a yearning, that for an instant gripped the friend's heart.
She sat down absently on the bench by the fountain, and presently, as George and Hallin were poking among the goldfish, she turned to her companion with the abrupt question: "You didn't know Ancoats, I think, before this visit, did you?" "Only as one knows the merest acquaintance. Fontenoy introduced me to him at the club." Marcella sighed. She seemed to be arguing something with herself.
However, Louis Craven was to be there. And he had promised to write even if Susie Hallin could find no time. Some report ought to reach Mellor by the evening. Poor Cravens! The young wife, who was expecting a baby, had behaved with great spirit through the Clarion trouble; and, selling their bits of furniture to pay their debts, they had gone to lodge near Anthony.
There had been a slack time for both candidates, which was now to give way to a fresh period of hard canvassing in view of the election which everybody expected at the end of February. But Aldous was to bring Edward Hallin! That interested her. She felt an intense curiosity to see and know Hallin, coupled with a certain nervousness.
She found herself wanting to please, instead of wanting to conquer, to make an effect. "You have just come from the village, I think?" said Hallin. "Aldous tells me you take a great interest in the people?" He looked at her kindly, the look of one who saw all his fellow-creatures nobly, as it were, and to their best advantage.
I am out of touch. Those whom I love and would serve, put me aside. Those who invite me, I do not care to join. So I drop into the gulf and the pageant rushes on. But the curious thing is now I have no suffering. And as to the future do you remember Jowett in the Introduction to the Phaedo " He feebly pointed to a book beside him, which Aldous took up. Hallin guided him and he read
"In my watch there's Jones, Harwood and Simms, either English or Welsh. They're all right. Then there's a nigger named Sam; Schmitt, a Dutchman, with his partner, whose name I don't know, and two Frenchies, Ravel and Pierre. That makes eight, nine counting myself. Then in the starboard watch I'd pick out Jim Carter and Joe Cole, two Swedes, Carlson and Ole Hallin, and another nigger.
"Well, I think she looks tired," said Hallin, with a little attempt at a smile, but turning away. Everybody felt a certain tension, a certain danger, even in the simplest words, and Miss Hallin's call to supper was very welcome. The frugal meal went gaily.
Aldous Raeburn she never did or could think of him under his new name was apparently in London, much occupied in politics, and constantly, as it seemed, in Betty's society. What likelihood was there that her life and his would ever touch again? She thought often of her confession to Hallin, but in great perplexity of feeling. She had, of course, said no word of secrecy to him at the time.
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