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Updated: May 16, 2025
Jack watched them talk, Imogen, the daughter of the dead, rejected husband, and Sir Basil, her mother's suitor. Mary had come in now, late from changing her dress, which at the last moment she had felt too shy to appear in. She was talking to Mrs. Wake and the Pakenhams.
Imogen read in her face a mingled embarrassment and displeasure. "I am sure we must all be very grateful to Mr. Potts for this great idea of his, mama dear," she said. "I thought of it, of course, as soon as papa died; I knew that we all owed it to him, and to the country that he loved and served so well; but I did not see my way, and have not seen it till now. I've so little technical knowledge.
When Flavia had taken him away and he came no more, she wept inconsolably for the space of two weeks, and refused to learn her lessons. Then she found the story of the Little Mermaid herself, and forgot him. Imogen had discovered at dinner that he could still smile at one secretly, out of his eyes, and that he had the old manner of outwardly seeming bored, but letting you know that he was not.
It all promises delightfully, only I don't see exactly, supposing this ever comes to anything, how Imogen Young is to be disposed of." "We won't cross that bridge till we come to it," said Clover; but all the same she did cross it in her thoughts many times. It is not in human nature to keep off these mental bridges.
"Well, I'll tell you what you can do," said Imogen. "You can walk over there I guess it won't hurt you to walk one way and then you can ride home in the stage-coach; it comes over about half-past four. I'll give you some money." "Oh, that's beautiful! Thank you, Imogen," cried Matilda, gratefully. "Well, run along and don't say another word to me," said Imogen, scowling over the crimson tibet.
Her rendering of 'Imogen' was pronounced superb. The papers also made passing allusions to her personal beauty. Soon paragraphs appeared concerning the attentions of Lord A and the Earl of B to her; of the infatuation of certain members of the various diplomatic corps.
"I hope you didn't realize, Rose, how you were hurting him." "I?" Rose opened wide eyes. "How, pray?" "Don't you know that he is devoted to Imogen Upton?" "Why, who isn't devoted to her, except wicked me?" "Devoted in particular in love with her, I think," said Mary.
Imogen fancied she could see that they felt a kind of relief at what the man had done, even those who despised him for doing it; that they felt a spiteful hate against Flavia, as though she had tricked them, and a certain contempt for themselves that they had been beguiled.
She was wan and she was pale, but she was not cool, she was not gray; he felt in her, as strongly as in far-off days, the warmth and fragrance, and knew that it was Imogen who had so cast her into a shadow. Her image had grown dim on that very first time of seeing Imogen standing as Antigone in the rapt, hushed theater.
It was a crime to mention Imogen's name in such society as that which met at Philario's house. The only excuse is Boccaccio, but what shall we say of Iachimo's interview with Imogen, invented by Shakespeare! After his beastly experiment upon her, he excuses himself: 'I have spoke this, to know if your affiance Were deeply rooted. She begs him to prolong his visit!
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