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Where is she the girl he had married, meaning to be true to her if nothing else? He had questioned her maid very casually, very unconcernedly, and she had told him that her mistress had gone out riding this morning about eight o'clock with Mr. Hescott.
So she might stand if she were about to fling her arms around his neck. "Down on your knees," cries Tita, giving herself the airs of a little queen. Hescott drops silently on to them. He has never once removed his gaze from hers. Such a strange gaze! One or two of the men present grow amused, all the women interested. Margaret Knollys makes an involuntary step forward, and then checks herself.
She had waited to see if he would give one to Tita; but he had not at least, nothing in particular nor had Tita run out to the hall to see him off. She had blown him a little kiss from behind the urn, which he had accepted calmly, and that was all! "Come on," says Randal excitedly; "Miss Hescott and I will hunt the lot of you! But look here, you must all keep to the parts of the house agreed on.
"You are alluding to Hescott?" "Yes to him, and Tita!" "Tita?" His brow darkens. "What are you going to say of her?" "What you" deliberately "do not dare to say, although you know it that she is absolutely depraved!" "Depraved!" "There stand back!" She laughs, a strange laugh. She has shaken herself free from him. "Fancy your taking it like that!" says she.
This girl is false And yet that quick step Marian had taken; it had somehow, in some queer way, planted itself upon his memory. Had she seen Tita go by with Hescott? She had called it a fair bet! Was it fair? Was there any truth anywhere? If she had seen them if she had deliberately led him to spy upon them
Like Elia's old lady, the "rigour of game" is all she cares for. She gives Tom Hescott one or two little turns. "'Then turn about, and turn about," says she, suiting the action to the word, "'And you don't catch me till May-day." With this, she gives him a delicate little shove, and, picking up the train of her gown, springs lightly backwards to the wall behind her.
"Perhaps he was afraid; and, indeed, Tita" very gently "you are not so altogether blameless yourself. You talked and played cards the whole night with Mr. Hescott." "Oh, poor old Tom! That was only because I had been unkind to him in the morning, and because" ingenuously "I wanted to pay out Maurice." Margaret sighs. "It is all very sad," says she.
Is not Tita to-day a ghost of her sweet self? And those words, "A sinner above all the Galileans!" Is there such a sinner? and if so, surely it is Hescott lifts his eyes to meet those of Rylton. For a moment the two men regard each other steadily, and in that moment know that each hates the other with an undying intensity. Mrs.
Looking at Tom Hescott at this moment, Sir Maurice tells himself, with a grim smile, that he is, perhaps, a little too presentable a sort of man that women always smile upon. His grim smile fades into a distinct frown as he watches Tita smiling now on the too presentable cousin. "What is it?" asks Mrs. Bethune, making room for him in the recess of the window that is so cosily cushioned.
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.
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