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Updated: June 27, 2025
"I should tell you, Major Hynd, that Lady Loring is as well informed as I am of what happened at Boulogne, and of the deplorable result, so far as Romayne is concerned. If you still wish to speak to me privately, I will ask you to accompany me into the next room." Major Hynd's embarrassment vanished. "After what you tell me," he said, "I hope to be favored with Lady Loring's advice.
"Hynd! you didn't tell the uncle my name?" "Don't alarm yourself. He is a gentleman, and when I told him I was pledged to secrecy, he made but one inquiry he asked if you were a rich man. I told him you had eighteen thousand a year." "Well?" "Well, he set that matter right between us with perfect taste. He said: 'I cannot presume to offer repayment to a person so wealthy.
They are not even to know who it is that assists them Romayne is to be their unknown friend. It is he, not they, whom we have to think of his peace of mind is everything; their merit is nothing. I say it's cruel to him to keep him in ignorance of what has happened. Why didn't you take the letter away from Major Hynd?" "Gently, Stella!
So she led Romayne away to his study and his books. When Major Hynd arrived, she contrived to be the first to see him. "Say as little as possible about the General's widow and her son," she whispered. The Major understood her. "Don't be uneasy, Mrs. Romayne," he answered. "I know your husband well enough to know what you mean. Besides, the news I bring is good news."
"Oh, my darling," she cried, "it was cruel to keep that secret from your wife! You have heard it again!" She was too irresistibly beautiful, at that moment, to be reproved. He gently raised her from the floor and owned the truth. "Yes," he said; "I heard it after you left me on the Belvidere just as I heard it on another moonlight night, when Major Hynd was here with me.
I heard Penrose ask: "Do you want me?" Romayne answered: "God knows I want a friend and I have no friend near me but you! Major Hynd is away, and Lord Loring is offended with me." Penrose asked why. Romayne, thereupon, entered on the necessary explanation. As a priest writing to priests, I pass over details utterly uninteresting to us.
He need only say that I have made the necessary inquiries, after being informed of the circumstances by you, and that I have communicated the favorable result to Mr. Romayne." "It's easy enough to write the letter, my dear. But it's not so easy to say what Major Hynd may think of you." "Does it matter to me what Major Hynd thinks?" Lady Loring looked at Stella with a malicious smile.
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