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She had some reason to think that Edward Newbury might present himself at Coryston for lunch that day. If so, and if he walked from Hoddon Grey and, unlike most young men of his age, he was a great walker, even when there was no question of grouse or golf he would naturally take this path. Some strong mingled impulse had placed her there, on his road.
And yet I doubt very much whether it would answer his purpose that she should see much of his home. She will never endure any home of her own run on the same lines; for at bottom she is a pagan, with the splendid pagan virtues, of honor, fairness, loyalty, pity, but incapable by temperament of those particular emotions on which the life of Hoddon Grey is based.
He was away much longer than any one expected, and after about six weeks he wrote to my father to say that he should return to Hoddon Grey with a wife. He had found a lady at Colwyn Bay, whom he had known as a girl. She was a widow, had just lost her father, with whom she lived, and was very miserable and forlorn. I need not say we all wrote the most friendly letters.
But she is a very fascinating young woman, my dear!" "I know," said Marcia, helplessly, "I know." There was a pause. Then Sir Wilfrid asked: "When do you go down to Coryston?" "Just before Whitsuntide." He looked round with a smile, saw that Edward Newbury was still in the box, and whispered, mischievously: "Hoddon Grey, too, I think, will not be empty?" Marcia kept an indifferent face.
And indeed it was high time he set up house for himself. There is a restlessness in a man which means marriage; and a mother soon becomes aware of it. Recalling her thoughts to the letters before her, Lady Coryston perceived among them a note from Lady William Newbury asking her and Marcia to spend a week-end at Hoddon Grey. Lady Coryston rather wearily reflected that she must no doubt accept.
How long had she known him? Since Christmas only? The Newburys and the Corystons were now neighbors indeed in the country; but it was not long since his father had inherited the old house of Hoddon Grey, and of the preceding three years Edward Newbury had spent nearly two in India. They had first met at a London dinner party; and their friendship, then begun, had ripened rapidly.
For instance: "What is happening, or what has probably already happened, yesterday or to-day, at Hoddon Grey? It is very easy to guess. N. has been gaining ground steadily ever since he has been able to see her away from the distracting influences of London. What is impressive and unusual in his character has room to show itself; and there are no rival forces.
He had soon reconquered cheerfulness; and when Arthur returned, he submitted to be talked to for hours on that young man's tangled affairs, handling the youth with that mixture of sympathy and satire which both soothed and teased the sentimentalists who chose to confide in him. Next morning Marcia and her mother returned from Hoddon Grey in excellent time.
Betts to write to her!" What a shame! Why should a girl in her first love-dream be harassed with such a problem be brought face to face with such "old, unhappy, far-off things"? He felt a fierce indignation with Coryston. And as he again sat solitary by the window, he lost himself in visualizations of what was or might be going on that summer afternoon at Hoddon Grey.
There's a deal to learn in this neighborhood the Hoddon Grey estate, for instance " Coryston threw up his hands. "The Newburys my word, the Newburys! 'Too bright and good' aren't they? 'for human nature's daily food. Such churches and schools and villages! All the little boys patterns and all the little girls saints.
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