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Do you think anybody in Knollsea knows it is going to be except us and the parson? 'I suppose the clerk knows. 'I wonder if a lord has ever been married so privately before. 'Frequently: when he marries far beneath him, as in this case. But even if I could have had it, I should not have liked a showy wedding. I have had no experience as a bride except in the private form of the ceremony.
'Is Mr. Julian going to call here? she inquired, coming forward again. 'No he's gone by the steamboat. He was only passing through on his way to Sandbourne, where he is gone to settle a small business relating to his father's affairs. He was not in Knollsea ten minutes, owing to something which detained him on the way. 'Did he inquire for me? 'No.
In London it had been a mere thought, but the Channel had looked so tempting from its brink that the journey was virtually fixed as soon as she reached Knollsea, and found that a little pleasure steamer crossed to Cherbourg once a week during the summer, so that she would not have to enter the crowded routes at all. 'I am afraid I shall not see you in Knollsea, she said.
The skipper's remark was the result of an observation that the wind had at last flown to the east, the single point of the compass whence it could affect Knollsea Bay. The result of this change was soon perceptible. About midway in their transit the land elbowed out to a bold chalk promontory; beyond this stretched a vertical wall of the same cliff, in a line parallel with their course.
Mountclere and Sol was speeding on its way to Enckworth. When they reached the spot at which the road forked into two, they left the Knollsea route, and keeping thence under the hills for the distance of five or six miles, drove into Lord Mountclere's park. In ten minutes the house was before them, framed in by dripping trees. Mountclere jumped out, and entered without ceremony.
To add to her perplexity, she could not be positive, now that it came to a real nautical query, whether the craft of Neigh's friends had one mast or two, for she had caught but a fragmentary view of the topsail over the apple-trees. 'Is that the yacht which has been lying at Knollsea for the last few days? she inquired of the master of the Speedwell, as soon as she had an opportunity.
The steamer was there, as the man had told them, much to the relief of Sol, who, being extremely anxious to enter Knollsea before a late hour, had known that this was the only way in which it could be done. Some unforeseen incident delayed the boat, and they walked up and down the pier to wait. The prospect was gloomy enough.
Menlove; and accept this for yourself. He handed money. 'Your lordship may be sure we will not, the valet replied. On Monday morning the little steamer Speedwell made her appearance round the promontory by Knollsea Bay, to take in passengers for the transit to Cherbourg.
'You have not a minute to lose, he said, in repressed anxiety. 'And your journey will be expensive: instead of walking from Anglebury to Knollsea, you had better drive above all, don't lose time. Never mind what class the train is. Take this from me, since the emergency is great. He handed something to Chickerel folded up small. The butler took it without inquiry, and stepped out hastily.
At least that was the arrangement I am not quite sure if it holds good. 'You don't wish me to see you safely in the train? 'It is not necessary: thank you very much. We are well used to getting about the world alone, and from Melchester to Knollsea is no serious journey, late or early. . . . Yet I think I ought, in honesty, to tell you that we are not entirely by ourselves in Melchester to-day.
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