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Updated: June 18, 2025
I left Mainstairs to Melrose; the responsibility was his, not mine. I went on with what I was doing. He and the police thank heaven! cleared the place." "And in the clearing, Mr. Melrose, they say, never lifted a finger to help did not even give money," said Lydia in the same low, restrained voice, as she looked away from her guest into the fire.
Penfold's rather knocked up with nursing her sister. She chattered to me about Faversham. He used to be a good deal there but they've broken with him too; apparently, because of Mainstairs. Miss Lydia couldn't stand it. She was so devoted to the people."
"If he really wants to put things right, why has he done nothing all these seven weeks?" she asked severely. "I saw Colonel Barton this morning. He and Mr. Andover are in despair. They felt such confidence in Mr. Faversham. The state of the Mainstairs village is too terrible! Everybody is crying out. The Carlisle papers this week are full of it. But there are scores of other things almost as bad.
She crossed the stepping stones, and in a river field on the farther side she came across an old shepherd, carrying a wounded ewe across his shoulders, and with his dog beside him. At sight of him she paused in astonishment. He was an old friend of hers, but he belonged to a village the village of Mainstairs some three miles away in the lowland toward Pengarth.
The Mainstairs cottages for instance. We are in for another diphtheria epidemic there. The conditions are simply horrible. Melrose, as before, will do nothing, and defies anybody else to do anything; says he has given the tenants notice that he intends to pull the cottages down, and the people stay in them at their own peril.
Penfold nor Susy knew where she was. In fact she was at Mainstairs, and with Faversham. She had mistaken a phrase in Tatham's note of the morning, and did not expect him till later. He had waited an hour for her, under the soft patter of Mrs. Penfold's embarrassed conversation; and had then ridden home, sorely disappointed, but never for one instant blaming the beloved.
She must hear of it immediately, and from those who would judge and perhaps denounce him. Nevertheless, as he dismounted at the Tower, neither the burden of Mainstairs, nor the fear of Lydia's disapproval, nor the agitation of the news from Duddon, had moved him one jot from his purpose.
And now this awful business at Mainstairs! Bessie Dobbs, the girl of eighteen Lydia's friend who had been slowly dying since the diphtheria epidemic of the year before, was dead at last, after much suffering; and he did not expect to find the child of eight, her little sister, still alive.
A room in one of the Mainstairs cottages, containing a bed, and on it a paralyzed girl, paralyzed after diphtheria the useless hands the vacant, miserable look other beds in the same room filling it up the roof so low that it seemed to be crushing down on the girl holes in the thatch rudely mended.
But what can you do with a madman." "Can you bear to be still in his employ?" She looked up, her beautiful eyes bright and challenging. "Mainstairs is not the whole estate. If I'm powerless here I'm not elsewhere " She was silent. He turned upon her. "If you are to misunderstand and mistrust me then indeed I shall lose heart!"
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