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They were both splashed with mud from shoulder to heel. They had both had more than enough of the wet and the slush. "That's right, Rupert, my boy!" the man murmured. "Finish in style!" They came out from beneath the over-arching trees, emerging upon the high road that led from Great Mallowes to Perrythorpe.
"About me?" questioned Dinah. "About the arrangements I am making. She is motoring to Great Mallowes in any case to catch the afternoon express." "Oh!" said Dinah, and coloured vividly, painfully. Scott did not see. "I can get someone at the farm to take the message," he said. "And when once you are with Isabel I shall feel easy about you." "And and my mother?" faltered Dinah.
I've promised to take these things back again. I say, can't I come along with you now?" "I'd rather you didn't," Scott said. "I can manage best alone. Besides, I'm going to ask you to do something more." "Anything!" said Billy readily. "Thanks. Well, will you ride this animal into Great Mallowes, hire a closed car, and send it to the bridge here to pick me up?
"I ought to have waited to ask your consent to the engagement, but I am afraid I am not a very patient person, and I wanted to make sure of your daughter before we parted. We are staying at Great Mallowes at the Royal Stag. May I come over to-morrow and put things on a more business-like footing?" "Oh, don't hurry away!" said Bathurst easily. "Sit down and have some tea with us!
We shall not be going to town before Easter, so it seems to me that it would be only neighbourly to invite Sir Eustace to stay at the Court for the wedding. Great Mallowes is not a particularly nice place to put up in, and this would be far handier for him." Lady Grace slowly veiled her astonishment. "Of course, dear; if you think so, it might be managed.
"It's natural, I know. You have had no sleep, and you have cried yourself ill. But I am not going to give in to you. I am not going to take No for an answer. You have no plans for yourself, and I doubt if in your present state you are capable of forming any. Isabel wants you, and it would be cruel to disappoint her. So you and I will join her at Great Mallowes this afternoon.
He had known, but he had forgotten. He believed it was to be some time in the evening. Her grand friends had arranged to stay at Great Mallowes, three miles, away for the night, and one of them the maid probably was to bring Dinah home. He had smiled over this arrangement, and Lydia had openly scoffed at it. As if a girl of Dinah's age were not capable of travelling alone!
The old church stood only a stone's throw further on. They were ringing the joy-bells with a vengeance. And then very suddenly he caught sight of the tail-lamp of a car close to his own gate. Dinah had returned then. They had actually chartered that car to convey her from Great Mallowes. He pursed his lips to a whistle. The little girl had been in clover indeed.
And for a third, I believe Isabel would prefer to stay at Great Mallowes." "You're mighty clever, my son, aren't you?" said Eustace with a supercilious twist of the lips. "But as it chances not one of those excellent reasons appeals to me." "Very well then," said Scott, with the utmost patience. "It is up to you to accept." "Why should Isabel prefer Great Mallowes?" demanded Sir Eustace.
Possibly even, a letter would be preferable." Dinah's face had flushed fiery red. She did not meet his eyes. "I don't see why you should have anything to do with her," she said. "You would never get her to consent." "Then I propose that we act first," said Scott. "Isabel is leaving to-day. You can join her at Great Mallowes and go on together. I shall follow in a couple of days.
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