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An hour later Brigit found herself sitting in a big red-leather armchair, in a highly modern and comfortable, if slightly gaudy apartment Joyselle's study. There was a small grate-fire with a red club-fender, a red, patternless carpet, soft, well-draped curtains, and tables covered with books and smoking materials.
"Dieu merci." An hour later Brigit Mead came quietly down the now nearly dark stairs of the old house, smiling faintly to herself. Joyselle's confession had been complete and circumstantial. He had not attempted to hide from her one thing, and in the relief of his, as it seemed, unavoidable avowal, he had hardly given her time to speak. "It was, I think, the evening you came in the golden gown.
Never mind, he will not think of it again, and neither must you." Brigit was silent, and stood looking at le Conquérant. She had been impolite, and Joyselle's discourtesy was, after all, more like a bit of schoolboy malice than the deliberate insult of a grown man. And his dignified rebuke to her had set her at once on the plane of a naughty child. Were they both grown up, or both children?
Eugene Struther is your man, and M. Joyselle objects to his table because it is number thirteen." Brigit, shaking hands with her enthusiastic hostess, caught Joyselle's eye. He had heard. "Mind? Not a bit," she answered carelessly, "if he doesn't." Mrs. Newlyn turned, to find the top of Joyselle's head presented to her in a bow of mockly-resigned acquiescence. "Then, that's all right.
Brigit was very tired and glad to rest, for the day's journey had been long, and Joyselle's interest in her interest in his country had taken the form of a restless desire to have her see everything possible from both sides of the compartment.
"Good Lord, Gerald! what is the matter?" "Matter enough. Brigit is Victor Joyselle's mistress." He sank into a chair and pressed his thin hands together until the bones cracked. "Gerald!" "She is! she is! I have just come from his studio in Chelsea. Followed her there. She was alone with him for over an hour. And when she came out " Lady Kingsmead rose and went to him.
Struther talked little, Brigit, with her usual indifference to others, almost not at all, and as Joyselle's self-command rose only to the height of an occasional reply to the Spectre's monologue, which was not of an arresting nature, the party on the balcony was very quiet. Brigit suffered tortures as she sat watching Joyselle. It was, then, as she had feared.
"Eh, bien, are things all right?" Madame Joyselle had come in, followed by Théo. Joyselle, standing in the shadow, did not answer, but Brigit laughed gaily, and her gaiety was unfeigned, for she had assured herself, by watching him under torture, of the strength of Joyselle's love for her.
How much?" He laughed aloud as he gave her some money and then got into the hansom. "Hampstead Heath, cabby. At Falaise there are millions of these roses see, with the outside leaves wrinkled and red. Oh, Brigit, Brigit, what a day!" If it be true that everything is in the eye of the beholder, then Joyselle's and Brigit Mead's eyes must have been full of beauties that day.
Stay and talk to your fiancée." An hour later Brigit slowly mounted the stairs at the inn. She was desperately tired, and as unhappy as she was tired. Joyselle's attitude, although she was bound in common justice to acknowledge its correctness, hurt her to an almost incredible degree.
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