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On the contrary it was a most straightforward and transparent look. Kendal's knowledge which might have sought cover if you had hunted it had come out to meet ours on equal terms. It only lasted for the fraction of a second. Kendal repeated firmly, but this time respectfully, that she was Mr. Jevons's car and he couldn't take her out without Mr. Jevons's orders, for if he did Mr.
Of its four rooms there was one in front that served as a dining-room and a drawing-room and a boudoir for Viola, and there was a kitchen at the back, and a bedroom over the front room, and Jevons's study was over the kitchen.
I was not only to witness to her innocence and Jevons's if they doubted it; I was to show them what she had shown me in the garden at Bruges, the beauty of the whole thing as it appeared to her. I was to show them Jevons's beauty. Well, I thought, it'll take some showing. "Do they," I asked her, "at all realize Jevons?" "Yes. They asked me if he was the man Reggie met at my rooms.
I was, as Jevons had said I should be, "in it." And, as I made my running, I thought with some remorse of that unfortunate one, languishing in Bruges on his parole. But Canterbury would have been no use to Jevons if he had been there. There's no doubt that I did something for the Thesigers in those ten days. I had effaced Jevons's legend.
But I didn't tell Jevons that. I hadn't the heart to. We stayed three days longer in Bruges. There were still some odd corners of the city that he hadn't had time to look up. Jevons was very kind to me all those three days. After we got back to England Jevons's affairs picked up and went forward with a rush. His novel came out at the end of May.
He had advanced within fifty yards of the German lines, he had picked up two of his wounded from under their sentry's fire, and the rest of the men and the officers he had gathered on his way. We sent them all to Ghent with Colville. Before he left, Kendal implored us just to look at Mr. Jevons's car. Mr. Jevons's car was worth looking at.
I took her into my library that had once been Jevons's study, where he had delivered the Grand Attack. I gave her a letter that Jevons had scribbled before lunch in the hotel at Folkestone. I suppose he had explained things in it. But as for me, or any power I had to break it to her, I might just as well have told her that he was dead. Except that perhaps then she wouldn't have turned on me.
So vividly and powerfully unpleasant that it nailed your eyes to it and kept them there. It made a break and a stain in your memory. When I say it was unpleasant I mean, and he meant, not that it was unclean, but that it was brutal. I shall have written this tale to very little purpose if it isn't transparent that Jevons's mind, Jevons's whole nature was scrupulously clean.
To any good old county family, Tasker Jevons's celebrity was nothing, if it was not an added offence, and his opulence was less than nothing. In settling among them he ran the risk of being ignored. But when it came to ignoring, Jimmy considered that success lay with the party who got in first.
We were at dinner in the little dining-room looking on the flagged court, a party of six: Viola at the head of the round table, with her back to the light; Jevons at the foot, facing her, with the light full on him; Charlie Thesiger was on Viola's right, I was on her left, facing him. Norah sat next to me on Jevons's right, and Mildred sat next to Charlie on Jevons's left, facing Norah.
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