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Updated: June 15, 2025
Jan needed a fright, Hugo decided; that's what she wanted to bring her to heel. And before very long he'd see that she got it. She shouldn't shelter herself for ever behind that supercilious beast, Ledgard. Hugo was quite ready to have been pleasant to Jan and to have met her more than half-way if she was reasonable, but since she had chosen to bring Ledgard into it, she should pay.
Meg looked keenly at Jan, who was staring into the fire, her eyes soft and dreamy; and almost as if she was unconsciously thinking aloud, she said: "I do hope, if Hugo chooses to turn up, he'll wait till Mr. Ledgard is back in England." "You think he could manage him?" "I know he could." "Then let us pray for his return," said Meg. The clock on the mantelpiece struck eleven.
It was a little cooler, but dusty, and the hot pavements made her feet ache. She was just wondering whether she would take a gharri when a motor stopped at the curb and Peter got out. "What are you doing?" he asked crossly. "Why are you walking in all this heat? You can't play these games in India. Get in." He held the door open for her. "Good afternoon, Mr. Ledgard," Jan said, sweetly.
They couldn't possibly notice everybody as they do at a little station like this." "Wait," said Meg, "don't go to the junction. Have you forgotten Mr. Ledgard was to fetch us all at half-past two? He'll run you over in his car in a quarter the time you'd take to go with Placid, and be some use as well.
"Then," said Peter, "I fear you've got the whole of them on your hands, Miss Ross." "That's what I've come for," Jan said simply, "to take care of Fay and the children." Peter Ledgard looked straight in front of him. "It's a lot to put on you," he said slowly, "and I'm afraid you'll find it a bit more complicated than you expect. Will you remember that I'd like to help you all I can?"
Why, a flat like this unfurnished costs over three hundred rupees a month. I don't know what a furnished flat would be." "But isn't it ... taking a great deal from Mr. Ledgard?" Jan asked timidly. Fay stretched out her hand and suddenly switched off the lights, so that they were left together on the big sofa in the soft darkness. "Give me your hand, Jan.
"And I can do nothing nothing to make them safe?" "I fear nothing only your best for them." "I'll do that," said Jan. They stood shoulder to shoulder in the scented stillness of the night. The shadows were black and sharp in the bright moonlight and the tom-toms throbbed in the city below. "I wonder," Jan said presently, "if I shall ever be able to do anything for you, Mr. Ledgard.
Before she joined Earley little Fay had been to the village with Meg to buy tape, and she had a great deal to say about this expedition. Meg saw that something was troubling Jan, and wondered if Mr. Ledgard had given her fresh news of Hugo. But Meg never asked questions or worried people. She chattered to the children, and immediately after tea carried them off for the usual washing of hands.
When the children had gone Meg said slowly: "And Mr. Ledgard comes to-morrow?" "He can't. I must telegraph and put him off for a day or two. Hugo is really ill." "I shouldn't put him off long, if I were you." Jan seized the tray: "I'll send a wire now, if you and the children will take it down to the post-office for me." "Why send it at all?" said Meg. "Let him come."
Unconsciously she stiffened her back and squared her shoulders, and looked very tall and straight as she stood beside Peter Ledgard in the entrance. The pretty colour he had admired when he met her had faded from her cheeks, and the face under the shady hat looked grave and older. Peter said something to the smiling lift-man in an extremely dirty dhoti who stood salaaming in the entrance.
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