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"If I know Hamil, he'll ask little advice from his relatives " "But he will receive plenty, Neville." Cardross shrugged. "Then it's up to him, Amy." "Exactly. But do you wish to have our little Shiela in a position where her declared lover hesitates? And so I say, Neville, that it is better for her that Mr. Hamil should know the truth in ample time to reconsider any sentiment before he utters it.
The entire bally business has gone up! That pup of a Louis! Oh, there's no use! Look here, Hamil! I tell you I can't believe it, I can't, and I won't Look what that fool card says!" And Hamil's stunned gaze fell on the engraved card: "Mr. and Mrs. Neville Cardross have the honour of announcing the marriage of their daughter Shiela to Mr. Louis Malcourt." The date and place followed.
At dinner-time, every mouthful of food, and that a scanty portion, was consumed, and there would be nothing for supper, or breakfast, on the next morning, unless Mrs. Hamil should pay her. It was nearly night when she finished ironing the last piece.
Malcourt inquired politely concerning the Villa Cardross and its occupants; Hamil answered in generalities. "You've finished there, then!" "Practically. I may go down in the autumn to look it over once more." "Is Cardross going to put in the Schwarzwald pigs?" "Yes; they're ordered." "Portlaw wants some here.
Leave your key under that yellow rose-bush, will you? I can't stop to hunt up mine. And tell them not to bar and chain the door; that's a good fellow." Hamil nodded and resumed his journey to his bedroom.
"Tell the chair-boy that we'll tea here, Jim," said Miss Palliser, catching sight of her nephew and the guilty Circe under whose gentle thrall Hamil was now boldly imbibing a swizzle. So Wayward nodded to the charioteer, the chair halted, and he and Constance disembarked and advanced across the grass to exchange amenities with friends and acquaintances.
And Hamil thought that he had never before beheld so many ornamental women together in any one place except in his native city; certainly, nowhere had he ever encountered such a heterogeneous mixture of all the shades, nuances, tints, hues, and grades which enter into the warp and weft of the American social fabric; and he noticed some colours that do not enter into that fabric at all.
Hamil reddened. "You mustn't ask me to criticise my own kin," he said. "No," she said, "you couldn't do that.... And Miss Suydam has been more civil recently. It's a mean, low, and suspicious thing to say, but I suppose it's because but I don't think I'll say it after all." "It's nicer not to," said Hamil. They both knew perfectly well that Virginia's advances were anything but disinterested.
Small wonder men were attracted; Hamil could understand what drew them the instinctive recognition of a fibre finer and a metal purer than was often found under the surface of such loveliness. And now, as he watched her, the merriment broke out again around her, and she laughed, lifting her face to his in all its youthfully bewildering beauty, and saw him standing near her for the first time.
"I should think not!" said Hamil cordially; "but as for my camping there's really almost nothing left for me to do except to familiarise myself with the character of your wilderness. Your father tells me he has the surveys and contour maps all ready. As a matter of fact I really could begin the office work at once "
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