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Ideala knelt down by the bed. "My! but you're a game un!" said the Tawdry One, admiringly. "You ain't afraid of catching nothing! Now, I'd have asked what was up before I'd have done that; and I wouldn't touch her with the tongs, nor stay in the room with her was it ever so. You just holler when you want me and I'll come back." And so saying she left them.
Carne was at home, and Beth was shown into the drawing-room, where she found several other lady visitors Mrs. Kilroy, Mrs. Orton Beg, Lady Fulda Guthrie, and Ideala. The last two she had not met before. "Where will you sit?" said Mrs. Carne, who was an effusive little person. "What a day! You were brave to come out, though perhaps it will do you good.
"Mrs. Jervois declared she wasn't a Catholic." "But her husband is," I answered; "and he heard every word." Ideala groaned. Not long afterwards Mrs. Jervois wrote and told us she had entered the Catholic Church. "I had, in fact, been received before I went to you," she confessed. "There!" Ideala exclaimed. "It is just what I said.
The Bishop slept serenely; conversation flagged; and Ideala wrote steadily for about three-quarters of an hour; then she gathered up the manuscript, rose from the table, and returned to her old seat. "'The Passion of Delysle' has become 'The Choice," she said. "Will you read it for me, Mr. Lloyd? I think it should have that advantage, at least."
"That depends," the lawyer said, cautiously. "If I signed a contract," Ideala explained, "and found out afterwards that those who induced me to become a party to it had kept me in ignorance of the most important clause in it, so that I really did not know to what I was committing myself, would you call that a moral contract?"
She was very properly seeking distraction, and found it for a moment in the contemplation of nature, and that softened her mood, so that when the inevitable rush of recollection comes and forces the thought of him back upon her, her feeling finds expression in a prayer instead of instead of " "A blasphemous remonstrance," Ideala put in.
I do not know if her feeling for Lorrimer has changed. My sister declares in her positive way that of course it has, completely; but my sister is not always right. Ideala has never mentioned his name since she returned to us, nor given us any other clue by which we could judge.
"Not alone, then," I answered, "so many luminaries circle round her." "Lady Adeline criticises her severely," she ventured, with a touch of asperity. "Les absents out toujours torts," I answered. "But, at the same time, when Lady Adeline criticises Ideala severely, I am sure she deserves it. Her faults are patent enough, and most provoking, because she could correct them if she would.
"I hope you are going to stay with us some time now, Ideala," I added, glancing up at her as she came and looked over my shoulder at the picture. Her face clouded. "I I am afraid not," she answered, hesitating, and nervously fidgeting with some paint brushes that lay on a table beside her. "I am afraid you will not want me when you know what I am going to do. I only came back to tell you."
Ideala sighed, and after a short pause she said: "I have been wondering what makes it possible for a woman to love a man? Not the flesh that she sees and can touch, though that may attract her as the colour of the flower attracts. It must be the mind that is in him the scent of the flower, as it were.
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