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Claire crossed the room, acutely conscious of Mrs Fanshawe's displeasure, stepped into the cool light of the verandah and beheld standing before her, large and trim in his soldier's uniform, Cecil's lover, the man who had masqueraded under his master's name. For one breathless moment the two stood face to face, staring, aghast, too petrified by surprise to be able to move or speak.
As in America, so in England, a surfeit of materialism had produced a lack of high spiritual purpose in the nation at large; there was much confusion of ideas and ideals; and also much triviality, which was especially offensive when it masqueraded under some high-sounding name.
His big soft felt hat had done unreasonable service as a head-piece; and the “store clothes” that hung upon his lean person could never in their remotest freshness have masqueraded under the character of “all wool.” He was in transit, as the bulging saddle-bags that hung across his horse indicated, as well as the rough brown blanket strapped behind him to the animal’s back.
And the fact that the woman who had originally masqueraded as Gypsy Nan as she, Rhoda Gray, was masquerading now was Danglar's wife, proved it a thousandfold more. She could no longer remain passive, arguing with herself that it took all her wits and all her efforts to maintain herself in the role of Gypsy Nan, which temporarily was all that stood between her and prison bars.
"Perhaps you are likewise ignorant of the identity of the two people who masqueraded as Tweedle-dee and Jack o' Lantern?" "They were my brother and his friend Archie," was the prompt reply. "Ah! Then you will admit something of this intrigue." "If it can be called by so portentious a name," answered Beverly smiling. That smile acted like a match to gunpowder.
The collection of years, the embroidered mantles and draperies, the jewels with which Saskia had been so gayly decked, the plumes and furs and gorgeous robes in which he himself had masqueraded, the armor and plate, the engravings and pictures which had filled his house all were sold. He, the master, had, at the age of fifty-one, to begin life anew as if he were still but the apprentice.
"Why any more than a woman's?" she answered rather blankly. "Ah, yes, I actually forgot for a moment whom I was talking to. I see; so it was considered a man's dress in your day, when the women masqueraded as mermaids. You may think me stupid not to catch your idea more quickly, but I told you I was dull at history.
"If you are not mad, will you tell me why you masqueraded as my son's mistress when you were his wife?" "Because your son was so afraid of you you may believe it or not as you will that he made me swear never to tell it to any one till he gave me leave. Poor Terence! He did not live to give me leave. He had made up his mind to tell you. He said our child should be born in his old home.
A ration of bread was about the size of one's two fists, and three rations a day were given to each prisoner. There was one good thing, I must say, about the water it was hot. In the morning it was called "coffee," at noon it was dignified as "soup," and at night it masqueraded as "tea." But it was the same old water all the time. The prisoners called it "water bewitched."
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