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But about four miles from Millsborough, we had an accident. You've seen my face, Mrs. Brundage, but you haven't seen my car. And we knew that the Marquis was not far behind us. So we dragged ourselves along the ditch into which we had fallen, and hid. At dawn we saw him go tearing by in his sumptuous sixteen-cylinder electric landaulette. After that "
They were his fellows in name only. Between him and them stood the judgment of Rocke! The evil chances of the world are many! It was whilst his thoughts traveled in this fashion that the electric landaulette of Lady Ruth Barrington glided round the corner from St. James' Street, and joined in the throng of vehicles slowly making their way down Piccadilly.
She had something to suffer, perhaps, when they came into contact again, in seeing Anne restored to the rights of seniority, and the mistress of a very pretty landaulette; but she had a future to look forward to, of powerful consolation.
Then I tried to reproach and reprove myself, but in order to do so I had to turn my eyes away. Our road to Blackwater lay over the ridge of a hill much exposed to the wind from the south-west. When we reached this point the clouds seemed to roll up from the sea like tempestuous battalions. Torrential rain fell on the car and came dripping in from the juncture of the landaulette roof.
FRIENDLY CREATURE. Do women always have new hats? Women have new hats. New women have hats. FRIENDLY CREATURE. Don't call me a woman, ducky; I'm a lady. YOU. I must be careful. If I don't flatter you, you'll take your umbrella away. There's Matilda. YOU. Where? FRIENDLY CREATURE. Coming towards us in that landaulette. YOU. Looks fit, doesn't she? FRIENDLY CREATURE. Her! She's a blooming rotter.
"Here, you," he cried, as I drew up, "who have you got in that car?" "Why," says I, "who should I have but somebody who has a right to be there? Ask his lordship for himself." "His lordship do you mean Lord Crossborough?" I went to say "Yes," just as he opened the door. You shall judge what I thought of it when a glance behind me showed that the landaulette was empty.
Miss Milsome took the telephone from the stand beside her. Sir Herbert Saunderson rose hurriedly and rang the bell. "The car, at once!" he ordered as the servant entered. "It's his heart I'm afraid of," said Mr. Wyatt. He was sitting on the front seat of the landaulette, facing Sir Herbert Saunderson and Dr. Freeman. "I don't think he knows how bad he is." They were already in Chelsea.
"Oh, come, come," says he, "don't be huffy. I only wanted to go as far as Portman Square." "Then call a furniture van," says I, "and perhaps they'll get you aboard." My dander was up, I tell you, for I was on the box of as pretty a Daimler landaulette as ever came out of Coventry, and if there's anything I never want to be, it's the driver of a pillar-box with a flag in his left ear.
I'm twenty-two to-morrow, Niti, and my grandfather, who is just about the best grandfather a girl ever had, cabled across to the Napier people, and they've sent round the dandiest six-cylinder, thirty-horse landaulette that you ever saw, even in Central Park, and a driver to match only I shan't have much use for him, except to look after the automobile.
My mistress had lent her landaulette to a stranger; but I felt sure that she wouldn't have liked this sort of thing and yet, remember, the gentleman had told me to drive to Portman Square, so there could not be much the matter, after all. As for the ladies, it wasn't for me to quarrel with them. They were all very well dressed, and behaved themselves perfectly.
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