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Delamayn did her best to encourage Blanche to talk, and Blanche did her best to meet the advances made to her. The experiment succeeded but poorly on either side. Mrs. Delamayn gave it up in despair, and turned to Lady Lundie, with a strong suspicion that some unpleasant subject of reflection was preying privately on the bride's mind. The conclusion was soundly drawn.
"You know me well enough, my dear," he said, "to be assured that I am incapable of willingly harrowing your feelings or misleading your judgment. I have a question to ask you, which you can answer or not, entirely as you please." Before he could put the question there was a momentary contest between Lady Lundie and her legal adviser.
"He says you'd better play the organ, Bubbles, and let him do the stalking. The monkey knows him." "By Jove, he's quite right," said Sir Christopher from the landing. "Take it, Bubbles, at once." "My God!" said Lord Lundie in horror. The chase reverberated over our heads, from the attics to the first floor and back again.
Right or wrong, however, the alarm that she felt hurried her into taking measures for dismissing the landlady on the spot. "We mustn't keep you from your occupations any longer," she said to Mrs. Inchbare. "I will give Miss Lundie all the help she needs." Barred from advancing in one direction, Blanche's curiosity turned back, and tried in another. She boldly addressed herself to Anne.
Blanche advanced a step and drew back. "What do you want of me?" she asked, inspired by a sudden distrust. Lady Lundie turned round, and looked at her impatiently. "Can't you see yet," she said, sharply, "that your interest and my interest in this matter are one? What have I told you?" "Don't repeat it!" "I must repeat it!
In other words, the step-mother of Blanche, and the enviable person who had taken the house and lands of Windygates. "My dear," said Lady Lundie, "words have their meanings even on a young lady's lips. Do you call Croquet, 'business?" "You don't call it pleasure, surely?" said a gravely ironical voice in the back-ground of the summer-house.
"Go back to the stables, Duncan," he said, "and say that Miss Lundie lends me her pony-carriage to-day. Let it be got ready at once and kept in the stable-yard. I want to attract as little notice as possible. You are to go with me, and nobody else. Provide yourself with a railway time-table. Have you got any money?" "Yes, Sir Patrick." "I did, Sir Patrick." "Should you know her again?"
She said, "we will meet, darling, with all the old love between us," just as she had said almost a lifetime since. Before the end her mind rallied. She surprised the doctor and the nurse by begging them gently to leave the room. When they had gone she looked at Lady Lundie, and woke, as it seemed, to consciousness from a dream. "Blanche," she said, "you will take care of my child?"
Geoffrey hesitated. There could be no difficulty in answering for Anne. Lady Lundie and her domestic circle had occupied Windygates for a much longer period than three weeks before the date of the lawn-party. The question, as it affected Arnold, was the only question that required reflection.
Lady Lundie, who had never "felt" in her life, appeared perversely determined to feel, on this occasion. She was offended and she showed it plainly. "When you are next called on, Sir Patrick, to judge of Miss Silvester's conduct," she said, "unless I am entirely mistaken, you will find yourself compelled to consider it as something beyond a joke."
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