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Updated: June 16, 2025
Ever since the Margerisons' abrupt fall into ignominy, Rodney had cultivated Peter's acquaintance. Peter perceived that he had at last slipped into the ranks of those unfortunates who were qualified for Rodney's regard; it was enough for that, Urquhart had long since told him, to be cut by society or to produce a yesterday's handkerchief.
If I find that you have, and that he has given it you, I shall pay it straight back.... You know, Hilary, we're really not so badly off as all that; we get along pretty well, I think; better than most other people." The other Have-Nots; they made no difference, in Hilary's eyes, to the fact that of course the Margerisons should have been among the Haves.
And somehow, illogically, his anger here was more with the Urquharts than with the Margerisons and most with Lucy. One is, of course, most angry, with those who have most power to hurt. Suddenly feeling rather ill, Peter collapsed into a chair.
So they stood for a type and a symbol and a sign that never, as long as the world endures, shall Margerisons get the better of Urquharts. They both looked at Peter, and Urquhart's brows rose a little, as if to say, "More Margerisons yet?" Hilary said, "What's the matter, Peter? Why have you come?" Peter said, rather faintly, "I meant to stop you before you saw Denis.
The Margerisons too were irrelevant; Hilary thought bridge a bore, and Peter, who thought nothing a bore, was always a little alarmed by anything so grown-up. But to-night he didn't much mind what he did, so long as he stopped looking at Lord Evelyn's things. Peter only wanted to get away; he was ashamed and perplexed and sorry and angry, and stabbed through with pity.
"Good-bye.... I needn't say how sorry I am about all this. It was hard lines on you being brought into it." He was making a transparent effort after friendliness; Peter almost smiled at it. Poor Denis; what a relief it would be to him when the disreputable Margerisons were off the scenes.
He's as great a swindler as his precious brother; they're a pair, you can't deny that." Denis didn't attempt to deny it; probably he was feeling a little tired of the Margerisons to-night. "I'm not defending Peter, or his brother either. I only said that he's Lucy's cousin, and she's very fond of him, and I'm not keen on actually breaking with him.
And you're to come and see us soon." That last wasn't a message from Denis; Peter knew that. He knew that there would be no more such messages from Denis; the Margerisons had gone a little too far in their latest enterprise; they had strained the cord to breaking-point, and it had broken.
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