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She thought she saw in many of his new friends a certain malicious triumph in the readiness with which the young demagogue had yielded to their baits. No doubt they were at least as much duped as he. Like Hallin, she did not believe, that at bottom he was the man to let himself be held by silken bonds if it should be to his interest to break them.
Wharton is paired for the remainder of the session." "Did you know anything of this?" said Hallin, with that careful carelessness in which people dress a dubious question. "Nothing," she said quietly. Then an impulse not to be stood against, springing from very mingled depths of feeling, drove her on.
"Tell her," Lord Maxwell had written with his own hand to Hallin, "she has taken up a noble work, and will make, I pray God, a noble woman. She had, I think, a kindly liking for an old man, and she will not disdain his blessing." He had died at Geneva, Aldous and Miss Raeburn with him. For instead of coming home in August, he had grown suddenly worse, and Aldous had gone out to him.
Lord Maxwell was still alive, and Hallin, in the midst of his work, was looking anxiously for the daily reports from Aldous, living in his friend's life almost as much as in his own handing on the reports, too, day by day to Marcella, with a manner which had somehow slipped into expressing a new and sure confidence in her sympathy when she one evening found Minta Hurd watching for her at the door with a telegram from her mother: "Your father suddenly worse.
Ay! and something infinitely dearer to him than his own qualms and compunctions. Hallin, who watched the whole debate in his friend day by day, was conscious that he had never seen Aldous more himself, in spite of trouble of mind; more "in character," so to speak, than at this moment.
Whereby Aldous understood that he would be engaged in his common Saturday practice of taking out a batch of elder boys or girls from one or other of the schools of which he was manager, for a walk or to see some sight. "If it's your boys," he said, protesting, "you're not fit for it. Hand them over to me." "Nothing of the sort," said Hallin, gaily, and turned him out of the room.
"Hallin's speech last year was first-rate," he continued, "but somehow Hallin damps you down, at least he did me last year; what you want just now is fight and, my word! Mr. Wharton let 'em have it!" And standing with his hands on his sides, he glanced round from one to another. His own face was flushed, partly from the effects of a crowded hall and bad air, but mostly with excitement.
He would certainly marry Betty Macdonald in time, whatever Mr. Hallin might say. Then why not put his pride away and be generous? Their future lives must of necessity touch each other, for they were bound to the same neighbourhood, the same spot of earth. She knew herself to be her father's heiress.
Hallin studied her kindly. "Is this miscellaneous work a relief to you after hospital?" he asked. "For the present. It is more exciting, and one sees more character. But there are drawbacks. In hospital everything was settled for you every hour was full, and there were always orders to follow.
Nevertheless, all the time, the resolution of which he had spoken to Hallin seemed to himself unshaken. He recognised and adored the womanly growth and deepening which had taken place in her; he saw that she wished to show him kindness.
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