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"But if there was an old attachment, and" Hescott's face is a little pale in the moonlight "and practically no one else how then?" "Eh?" "I mean, if" he comes closer to her "Tita, if you had known a man who loved you before you were married, and if when you did marry " "But she didn't marry him at all," interrupts Tita. "He died or something I forget what." "Yes; but think."
"I can't waltz at all," says the bride. But her husband comes to the rescue. "Oh, nonsense!" says he, smilingly. "Hescott dances so well that he will teach you. Go, go with him." He gives her a playful little push towards Hescott, who is looking very blank. "You'll get into it in no time." "Get into it." The disgust that is writ so large on Hescott's face, as he leads her away, makes Mrs.
She raises both her arms to their fullest height, which hardly brings her pretty hands even to a level with his forehead. She stands so for a moment, laughing at him through the gracefully uplifted arms. It is a coquettish gesture, though certainly innocent, and nobody, perhaps, would have thought anything of it but for the quick, bright light that springs into Hescott's eyes.
This is an embarrassing question, or ought to be, as Mr. Hescott's father is dead; but he seems quite up to it. Indeed, it now occurs to Sir Maurice that this cannot be the first time he has played blind man's buff with his cousin. "'Three white and three gray." "An excellent stud!" says Mr. Gower. But Tita is not thinking of frivolities.
"I! Oh, Maurice!" "Yes you! Yesterday, as it seems to me, I believed in everyone. To-day I doubt every soul I meet." At this point Hescott's "doubts," at all events, seem to be set at rest. His hand has ceased to wander over the pretty head, and in a low tone he says: "Titania!" This word is meant for Tita alone. A second later he calls aloud: "Lady Rylton!" But Maurice and Mrs.
"There!" says Tita, who has now bound the handkerchief over Hescott's eager eyes. "Now are you sure you can't see? Not a blink?" She turns up his chin, and examines him carefully. "I'm certain you can see out of this one," says she, and pulls the handkerchief a little farther over the offending eye. "Now, get up. 'How many horses in your father's stable?"
The light is so dim that she cannot see his face distinctly. Perhaps if she had, she would have been kinder. "I mean nothing. Only go; go at once! Do you hear?" Her childish voice grows imperious. "I am going," says Hescott dully "in the morning." "Oh! I'm glad" smiting her hands together "by the early train?" "The earliest!" Hescott's soul seems dying within him.
She would square him later on, even if her plain speaking offended him now; and, at all events, Tita would be on her side would acknowledge she had meant kindly towards her, and even if all failed still something would be gained. She would have "been even" with Mrs. Bethune. Miss Hescott's vocabulary is filled with choice sayings, expressive if scarcely elegant. Beyond her dislike to Mrs.
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