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I know I should have done just as much as men do, if I had had the chance." "Considerably more, no doubt, than either Honeybourne or I." "You have never really put out your strength, I'm afraid, Lord Dymchurch," said May, regarding him with her candid smile. "Never in anything have you?" "No," he responded, in a like tone. "A trifler always a trifler!" "But if you know it "
You don't know Lady Honeybourne very well, I think? Oh, she's very bright, and has lots of ideas. I think we shall be real friends. She must come down to Rivenoak in August." "I'm sorry," interposed Dymchurch, as soon as there came a pause, "that Lady Ogram had to leave town so soon." "Oh, it was too much for her.
The circular dovecote belonging to monastic times is carefully preserved. Bretforton, with its church built by the monks of Evesham, lies on the road between Badsey and Honeybourne. The villages of Middle and South Littleton have been little affected by modern enterprise. They may be reached by way of Offenham or Bengeworth, or from the village station.
Enthusiastic in admiration of Lady Honeybourne, she heard with much interest that Dymchurch's acquaintance with the Viscount went back to Harrow days. "That's what I envy you," she exclaimed, "your public school and University education! They make us feel our inferiority, and it isn't fair."
Arriving half an hour before, Dymchurch found his hostess in the open-air theatre, beset with managerial cares, whilst her company, already dressed for their parts, sat together under the greenwood tree, and a few guests strayed about the grass. He had met Lady Honeybourne only once, and that a couple of years ago; with difficulty they recognised each other.
Their dialogue was interrupted by the hostess, who came forward with a gentleman she wished to present to Miss Tomalin. Hearing the name Mr. Langtoft Dymchurch regarded him with curiosity, and, moving aside with Lady Honeybourne as she withdrew, he inquired whether this was the Mr. Langtoft. "It is," the hostess answered. "Do you take an interest in his work? Would you like to know him?"
Almost within sight of this churchyard, and not many minutes' walk from it is the church of Cow Honeybourne which, with the exception of the tower, has been entirely rebuilt. For many years the nave and chancel were occupied as cottages. On the Evesham side of the river there is only one church which seems to have been entirely the property of the Abbey.
The analogy of Lord Honeybourne came into his mind; Lord Honeybourne, whose marriage had been the turning-point of his career, and whose wife, in many respects, bore a resemblance to May Tomalin. "I shall have to think very seriously about it," May was replying. "But nothing could interest me more. You don't feel at all inclined for public life?"
Egwin's Church at Honeybourne was also in the "Deanery of the Vale," and under the special charge and jurisdiction of the Abbey. It may be reached either by road or rail. The fine tower and spire stamp it, at a glance, as different in style from the other churches of the neighbourhood; and these belong probably to the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
Lord Honeybourne and he had been schoolfellows; they were together at Oxford, but not in the same set, for Dymchurch read, and the other ostentatiously idled. What was the use of exerting oneself in any way asked the Hon. L. F. T. Medwin-Burton when a man had only an income of four or five thousand in prospect, fruit of a wretchedly encumbered estate which every year depreciated?
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