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"It is a lie!" she repeats passionately. "If so " begins Hescott, but in so low a tone, and so dead, that she scarcely heeds it. "And to call me an angel before them all. Ah! I could read through you. So could everyone. It was an insult! I won't be called an angel. I am just what Maurice is, and no more. I wonder Maurice didn't kill you and he would, only you were his guest. So would I only "
"Come out here on the balcony and enjoy the moonlight for awhile." She had been standing out there in the shadow, and had heard and seen what had occurred between Tita and her husband, and later on with Tom Hescott. Rylton follows her. The soft chill of the air outside attracts him. It seems to check all at once the bitter anger that is raging in his heart.
"Hena, Dena, Dina, Dus." "Good heavens!" interrupts Mr. Gower, with extravagant admiration. "What command of language! I" to miss Hescott "didn't know she was a linguist, did you?" "Calto, Wheela, Kila, Kus." "Oh, I say!" murmurs Mr. Gower faintly. "It can't be right, can it, to say 'cuss words' at us like that? Oh, really, Rylton, would you mind if I retired?"
"Well, then, come on come on," cries she, gaily beckoning to her guests right and left, and carrying them off, a merry train, to the ball-room. "Now, who'll be blinded first?" asks Mr. Gower, who has evidently constituted himself Master of the Ceremonies. "You!" cries Miss Hescott. "Not at all. There is only one fair way of arranging that," says Tita. "I'll show you.
Now, there is a screen just inside the entrance to this gallery, and behind it are Minnie Hescott and Mr. Gower. Randal's eyes are sharp, but Minnie's even sharper. They both note, not only Maurice's abrupt entrance, but the expression on his face. "Do something quickly," says Minnie, giving Randal a little energetic push that all but overturns the screen. "Anything!
"It is you who have my card!" cries Tita suddenly, as if just remembering, and with a merry laugh. "Of course! How could I have forgotten!" "How, indeed!" says her husband pleasantly; his mouth is looking a little hard, however. "Give it to me," says Tita. Hescott gives her the car in silence. If she is ignorant, he, at all events, is quite aware that there is thunder in the atmosphere.
"You assure me honestly that you don't believe in love?" "Not a bit," says Tita. "It's all nonsense! Now come in I want to dance. And remember remember, Tom, you have promised not to breathe a word about what I have told you." "I promise," says Hescott in a slow sort of way; he is thinking.
"He will tell you," says she, and with a little scornful lifting of her chin she turns away. "Now for your story, Tom," cries she gaily, merrily. "You take me very short," says Hescott, who seems, in his present mood, which is of the darkest, to be the last man in Europe to tell an amusing tale. "But one occurs to me, and, of course," looking round him, "you all know it.
The Hescott girl was of little consequence at any time. Yet sharp, too! Perhaps, after all, she is of consequence. She has gone, however and it is a mere question whether she had seen her with Sir Maurice or not.
Tom Hescott has shown himself desirous of taking Tita's small fingers into his possession for the time being, at all events a fact pointed out to Rylton by Mrs. Bethune with a low, amused little laugh; but Tita had told him to go away, as she couldn't give her hand to anybody for a moment, as she was going to have the conduct of the affair.
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