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Updated: June 16, 2025
For a time they got no further than the threshold. The opening of the door was greeted with a long-drawn and emphatic 'Hush! from the company within. Maguire laid his hand on Hyacinth's arm, and the two stood still looking into the room. What was left of the feeble autumn twilight was almost excluded by half-drawn curtains.
He seemed less oppressed with gloom as time went on, but had his sullen fits still, and, after being kind and courteous to wife and sister, and playful with his children, would leave them suddenly, and return no more to the saloon or drawing-room that evening. Yet on the whole the sky was lightening. He ignored Hyacinth's resentment, endured her pettishness, and was studiously polite to her.
Sir Charles Cannon was the only human being for whom she felt a little sympathy, instinctively knowing that under all his amiable congratulations he disliked Hyacinth's marriage almost as much as she did, and in the same way. All the strength of her feelings and affections, then, which in the ordinary course would have gone in other channels, Anne had lavished on Hyacinth.
"All that happened when he was eight; he's older now and knows better." "Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more." "Nonsense.
The Canon learnt by degrees something of Hyacinth's past life, and his career in Trinity College. He shook his head gravely over the friendship with Augusta Goold, whom he evidently regarded as almost beyond the reach of the grace of God.
You see, the War Office people sent down a perfect idiot to buy remounts for the cavalry in Galway and Mayo. He was the sort of idiot that would tempt an Archbishop to swindle him. I rather overdid it, I'm afraid, and now the matter is likely to come out. For all his boasted powers of observation, Captain Quinn failed to notice the disgust and alarm on Hyacinth's face.
The kitchen door, being at the back of the house, was oftenest the sheltered one, so the front door was bolted, and the grass grew up to it. One by one, as Hyacinth's education required, the Latin and Greek books were removed from the forsaken study, and took their places among the diminishing array of plates and cups on the kitchen dresser.
But to live there with her father, to wait upon him and tend him, to have Hyacinth's children there, playing in the gardens as she had played, would be as happy a life as her fancy could compass.
His Puritan gravity fell away from him like a pilgrim's cloak, in the light air of Hyacinth's amusements. He seemed to grow younger; and Henriette's sharp eyes discovered an improvement in his dress. "This is your second new suit since Christmas," she said, "and I'll swear it is made by the King's tailor. Regardez done, madame!
She had hardly any acquaintances except her relations, but possessed an enormously large number of extremely intimate friends a characteristic that had remained to her from her childhood. Hyacinth's ideal of society was to have no padding, so that most of the members of her circle were types. Hyacinth was fond of decoration.
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