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To find that he, too, knew of this trouble was some relief. He made no objection when she begged that they should follow on to Joyfields. Directly after breakfast they set out. Once on her way to Derek again, she did not feel so frightened. But in the train she sat very still, gazing at her lap, and only once glanced up from under those long lashes. "Can you understand it, Dad?"
He had left Becket the day after Nedda's rather startling removal to Joyfields, and since then had done his level best to put the whole Tryst affair, with all its somewhat sinister relevance to her life and his own, out of his mind as something beyond control. He had but imperfectly succeeded.
He put his arm round me, and I let him.... It seems an age to wait till they come to stay with us next week. If only Mother likes them, and I can go and stay at Joyfields. Will she like them? It's all so different to what it would be if they were ordinary. But if he were ordinary I shouldn't love him; it's because there's nobody like him.
In this way, pointing out the beauty of each feature of the scenery, and not permitting herself or Nedda to think about the bag, they drove until they came to Joyfields. Kirsteen alone was in, and, having sent Nedda into the orchard to look for her uncle, Frances Freeland came at once to the point. It was so important, she thought, that darling Nedda should see more of dear Derek.
To Felix, who took her in to dinner, she spoke feelingly and in a low voice. She liked Felix, in spite of his wife, and respected him he had a name. Lady Malloring she told him the Mallorings owned, of course, everything round Joyfields had been telling her that of late Tod's wife had really become quite rabid over the land question. 'The Tods' were hand in glove with all the cottagers.
During the six weeks which had elapsed between his return home from Joyfields and the assizes, Felix had much leisure to reflect that if Lady Malloring had not caused Tryst to be warned that he could not marry his deceased wife's sister and continue to stay on the estate the lives of Felix himself, his daughter, mother, brother, brother's wife, their son and daughter, and in less degree of his other brothers, would have been free of a preoccupation little short of ludicrous in proportion to the face value of the cause.
And, while the little machine buzzed about his head, he proceeded to detail to her the facts of the state of things that existed at Joyfields. When he had finished, she said: "Now, darling, bend down a little." Felix bent down. And the little machine began severely tweaking the hairs on the nape of his neck. He sat up again rather suddenly. Frances Freeland was contemplating the little machine.
Put it on when you go to bed, and rub it well in; you'll find it act splendidly." The old man took the little pot with dubious reverence. "Yes, m'm," he said; "thank you, m'm." "What is your name?" "Gaunt." "And where do you live?" "Over to Joyfields, m'm." "Joyfields another of my sons lives there Mr. Morton Freeland. But it's seven miles." "I got a lift half-way."
She took a sip from her glass, and the feeling that he had been going to laugh passed away. "It's about the daughter of a laborer, down there in Worcestershire, where he lives, not very far from Becket. He's my cousin, Derek, the son of my other uncle at Joyfields. He and his sister feel most awfully strongly about the laborers." "Ah!" said Mr. Cuthcott, "the laborers!
She saw her aunt smile, and wondered whether she had said anything exceptionally foolish. But it was not foolish surely not to say what one really felt. "Some day, Nedda, all the world will say that with you. Until then we'll fight those who won't say it. Have you got everything in your room you want? Let's come and see." To pass from Becket to Joyfields was really a singular experience.
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