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Updated: June 13, 2025
I'm sure she'd have cut my head off if I'd attempted to open my mouth on ordinary topics. The children were rather ducks; but imagine leaving them about like that amongst the bees. 'Kirsteen! She looked it. Never again! And Tod I didn't see at all; I suppose he was mooning about amongst his creatures."
He looked at her, realizing suddenly that the association of his brother's family with the outrage on Malloring's estate was probably even nearer than he had feared. "Look here, Kirsteen!" he said, uttering the unlikely name with resolution, for, after all, she was his sister-in-law: "Did this fellow set fire to Malloring's ricks?"
Felix stroked his shoulder. "Go up-stairs, old man. Kirsteen's anxious." Tod sat down and took his boots off. "I can't understand," he said once more. Then, without another word, or even a look at Felix, he went out and up the stairs. And Felix thought: 'Poor Kirsteen! Ah, well they're all about as queer, one as the other! How to get Nedda out of it?
Just think what would have happened yesterday if that poor fellow hadn't providentially gone off the hooks!" "Providentially!" "Well, it was. You see to what lengths Derek was prepared to go. Hang it all! We shouldn't have been exactly proud of a felon in the family." Frances Freeland, who had been lacing and unlacing her fingers, suddenly fixed her eyes on Kirsteen.
And quietly they all went out. Derek, who had stayed perfectly still, staring past Nedda into a corner of the room, said: "Ask him what he wants, Mother." Nedda smothered down a cry. But Kirsteen, tightening her clasp of him and looking steadily into that corner, answered: "Nothing, my boy. He's quite friendly. He only wants to be with you for a little." "But I can't do anything for him."
It was a career; one would not have one's wife otherwise. She might, for instance, have been like Stanley's wife, Clara, whose career was wealth and station; or John's wife, Anne, whose career had been cut short; or even Tod's wife, Kirsteen, whose career was revolution.
The sound of his voice was utterly unlike his own, and Kirsteen, starting forward, put her arm round him. "It's all right, Mother. They've chucked me." At that moment, when all, save his mother, wanted so to express their satisfaction, Frances Freeland alone succeeded. "I'm so glad, darling!"
The day he got up again he began afresh: "When are the assizes?" "The 7th of August." "Has anybody been to see Bob Tryst?" "Yes; Aunt Kirsteen has been twice." Having been thus answered, he was quiet for a long time. She had slipped again out of her chair to kneel beside him; it seemed the only place from which she could find courage for her answers.
Then something within her revolted, as though one had tried to hypnotize her into seeing what was not true; as though she had been forced for the moment to look, not at what was really there, but at what those eyes saw projected from the soul behind them. And she said quietly: "I don't believe, Aunt Kirsteen. I don't really believe. I think it must go out." Kirsteen turned.
They were very young, and if she could stay for a few weeks, they would both know their minds so much better. She had made her bring her bag, because she knew dear Kirsteen would agree with her; and it would be so nice for them all. Felix had told her about that poor man who had done this dreadful thing, and she thought that if Nedda were here it would be a distraction.
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