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She could even afford to have her own opinions. The very memory of past discomforts doubled the present blessedness, and Mr. Lenox looked only half the size that he had six months before. It was a long stride to have taken in half a year, and with reason she congratulated herself on her cleverness. In Mr. Lenox's gravity of manner as he took her in to dinner, she perceived only respect for Mrs.
After applying more brandy to the lips and temples without result, he removed his Norfolk coat still warm and dry within and with the help of two fir boughs contrived to shelter Lenox's head and chest from the chilling downpour. Then he set to work on the broken arm. That done, there remained nothing but to wait: the hardest task that can be assigned to a man of action.
"There's a steak coming a good-sized one, the waiter said it'd be." "Very well." Susan spoke indifferently. "Aren't you hungry?" "I don't know. I'll see." Susan was gazing straight ahead. Her eyes were distinctly gray gray and as hard as Susan Lenox's eyes could be. "What're you thinking about?" "I don't know," she laughed queerly. "Was it dreadful?"
"It's not a question of what I want to do; it's what I've got to do," the other answered, averting his eyes. "My good Dick, you're talking in riddles. Have you taken temporary leave of your senses? Or is it a case of 'urgent private affairs'?" Lenox's tone had an edge to it. Of course the man was free to go where he chose.
This, then, is what was at last decided: that Kink should get the caravan to Oxford and be all ready for the children to join him on the Wednesday morning. They should go down to Oxford on the day before and be looked after by Mr. Lenox's young brother, who was at Oriel. They should leave Oxford in the caravan on the next morning on their way to Stratford-on-Avon.
When Desmond returned an hour later, he found Lenox's luggage in the verandah, awaiting removal, and Lenox himself sitting alone in the drawing-room with Brutus and his pipe. It rested on his knee, held in place by the finger-tips emerging from his sling; and as Desmond entered he was scientifically pressing its contents into place with the ball of his thumb.
In Lenox's case, it helped to deaden the prick of anxiety as to the future and the physical ache of longing; for as Commandant with two out of four subalterns on the 'sick list, he had his hands full; and Desmond, the Colonel's chosen friend and ally in all regimental matters, was in the same enviable condition.
After supper he took them outside the Hollow, and they lay on their backs and studied the stars, about which he knew everything that can be known, and nothing whatever that Gregory wanted to know. And they went to bed early, to be ready for the long journey on the morrow with their feet covered with Mr. Lenox's ointment declaring it was one of the most delightful days they had ever spent.
But it is feared they will reduce all to the soldiery, and all other places be taken away; and what is worst of all, will alter the present militia, and bring all to a flying army. It seems a daughter of the Duke of Lenox's was, by force, going to be married the other day at Somerset House, to Harry Germin; but she got away and run to the King, and he says he will protect her.
Lenox's runaway horse and on examination seemed to lack nothing but an Eclectic spelling book, a reader and a Testament which were promised him; "The Colonists," in which men of various callings offered their services, and while even the dancing master was accepted as of some possible use, the gentleman was scornfully rejected; "Things by Their Right Names," in which a battle was described as wholesale murder; "Little Victories," in which Hugh's mother consoled him for the loss of a leg by telling him of the lives of men who became celebrated under even greater adversities; "The Wonderful Instrument," which turned out to be the eye; "Metaphysics," a ludicrous description of a colonial salt-box in affected terms of exactness designed to ridicule some forms of reasoning.
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