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Mallinson was never able to take definite offence, but he was none the less invariably galled by it. 'As a matter of fact there is hardly a year to choose between the ages of Drake, Conway, and you, Mallinson, is there? asked Fielding. Mallinson admitted that the statement was correct. 'He has lived a hard life, has anxieties enough now, I don't doubt. You will find the explanation in that.
'To-morrow, he replied; 'but only for three days at first. There's some new development he speaks of. He will have to leave again on Saturday for a fortnight. Clarice sat thoughtfully for a minute or two. Then she asked: 'Did you invite Mr. Mallinson this summer? Mr. Le Mesurier shuffled his feet under the table. 'No, my dear, he said.
Willoughby moved away from the window precipitately. 'So, if Mr. Mallinson is so fond of Clarice, she said, 'that he sees her in everybody one can't help pitying him. Mrs. Willoughby, however, for a short time subsequently was not seen in the company of the discarded lover, and Fielding inferred with satisfaction that her pity was taking a less active form.
'I suppose he is a little more cunning than one took him for. No doubt he saw the thing would get known sooner or later, and thought the disclosure had better come from himself. Fielding had been leaning to the same opinion, but the moment he heard it stated, and stated by Mallinson, he felt a certain conviction that it was wrong. 'I don't believe that, he said sharply.
Mallinson was diverted by her assurance of sympathy, and launched out immediately into an elaborate history of the emotions which the friendliness of Miss Le Mesurier to Drake had set bubbling within him. Mr. Le Mesurier approached the pair before Mallinson had finished, and the latter hurriedly broke off. 'Well, said Mr. Le Mesurier, 'will you meet Mr. Drake, Constance, at lunch, say on Sunday?
Willoughby, I believe. 'A kind of cousin. There was silence between the men for a second or two. Mallinson was recalling what Mrs. Willoughby had said that evening at Beaufort Gardens, when Mr. Le Mesurier pressed her to meet Stephen Drake at lunch. 'So Gorley died in Africa, he remarked. 'Where? Do you know? 'Yes; at Boruwimi. Mallinson started.
Le Mesurier and suspected by Clarice. Was this fact to Drake's advantage or discredit? The father's manner indicated rather the latter; but Mallinson put that aside.
It did not occur to him at all that he might be drawn into an unwilling assumption of a part in his own play. Mallinson on reaching home unlocked a little oak cabinet which hung against the wall beside his writing-table, and searched amongst a litter of newspaper cuttings and incomplete manuscripts.
Mallinson was, I would write and tell him of our present happiness. But for the situation which his kindness procured for Robert, we might still have been waiting vainly for the day that has now come. I am to work at home for the future, and Sally is to help us in our new abode. If Mary could have lived to see this day!
Le Mesurier had not known of its publication until to-night, and so clearly had not read it; his knowledge was antedated. But on the other hand it was immediately after the perusal of the article that Clarice had sent through him her invitation to Drake. Mallinson studied the article line by line, but without result.
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