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Sibyl and Alma had as good as fallen out; the less they saw of each other the better. And now he had to face a woman, perhaps dying, who would doubtless rail by the hour at her own daughter. O heaven! for a breath of air on sea or mountain or prairie! Could he stand this life much longer? Driving to Waterloo, he thought of Mrs. Larkfield's bequest to the charitable institution.
Of all natural explanations, this, of course, had never occurred to him. Yesterday's telegram told of Mrs. Larkfield's serious condition, and Sibyl had started at once for Weymouth, expecting to meet him there. One word of hers to the servant and he would simply have followed her. But Sibyl saw no necessity for that word. She was always reserved with domestics.
He would have supposed him the last person either to seek or to obtain favour with Hugh Carnaby. 'Sibyl has known him for a long time, Hugh continued. 'Tells me he did all sorts of kindnesses for her mother at Ascott Larkfield's death; fixed up her affairs they were in a devil of a state, I believe. Last autumn we met him in Scotland; he was with his sister and her family Mrs. Fenimore.
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