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Updated: June 17, 2025
The crowd on the grass was rapidly diminishing; the tennis-players had relinquished sport; many people had gone in to dinner or supper; and many others, attracted by the cheerful radiance of the candles, were gathering in the large tent that had been lighted up for dancing. Dare went to the garden-chair on which Havill had been seated, and found the article left behind to be a pocket-book.
The evening and the next morning were passed in writing a final and kindly note of dismissal to Sir William De Stancy, in making arrangements for the journey, and in commissioning Havill to take advantage of their absence by emptying certain rooms of their furniture, and repairing their dilapidations a work which, with that in hand, would complete the section for which he had been engaged. Mr.
But the fact of her having again become the arbitrator, though it had made acceptance of his plans all the more probable, made refusal of them, should it happen, all the more crushing. He could have conceived himself favoured by Paula as her lover, even had the committee decided in favour of Havill as her architect. But not to be chosen as architect now was to be rejected in both kinds.
Dare had brought up his van and assistant to begin operations, Somerset returned to the castle entrance. While under the archway a man with a professional look drove up in a dog-cart and inquired if Miss Power were at home to-day. 'She has not yet returned, Mr. Havill, was the reply.
Call it Divine Comedy, rather! said the soldier exultingly. 'He is practically banished for a year or more. What can't you do in a year, captain! Havill, in the meantime, having respectfully withdrawn from the presence of Paula, passed by Dare and De Stancy in the gallery as he had done in entering. He spoke a few words to Dare, who congratulated him.
When Havill got into the open air his morbid excitement calmed down, but a sickening self-abhorrence for the proceeding instigated by Dare did not abate. To appropriate another man's design was no more nor less than to embezzle his money or steal his goods.
Havill, the thing could be done, but not otherwise. To this the two companions agreed, and presently went upstairs with as gentlemanly a walk and vertical a candle as they could exhibit under the circumstances. The other inmates of the inn soon retired to rest, and the storm raged on unheeded by all local humanity. At two o'clock the rain lessened its fury.
Haze in the evening; for if Dare had indeed found admission with Havill, or as his agent, the design was lost. But he could not make a drawing that was a satisfactory likeness.
Please meet me to-morrow at ten. At ten o'clock they met in the same room, Paula appearing in a straw hat having a bent-up brim lined with plaited silk, so that it surrounded her forehead like a nimbus; and Somerset armed with sketch-book, measuring-rod, and other apparatus of his craft. 'And Mr. Havill? said the young man.
'Such a commission as has been entrusted to you will make you famous! 'How do you do? I wish it would make me rich, said Havill drily. 'It will be a lift in that direction, from what I know of the profession. What is she going to spend? 'A hundred thousand. 'Your commission as architect, five thousand. Not bad, for making a few sketches.
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