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"Unless the man is an adventurer," said Victoria, straightening her shoulders, "he will, of course, do his best to put this girl who is the rightful heiress into her proper place. What business has he with Mr. Melrose's estates?" Lady Tatham spoke with imperious energy. Lydia's eyes showed an almost equal animation. "May he not share with her? Aren't they immense?"
And if one loses them honour and self-respect and a clear conscience how can money make up! If I were to marry you and we had to live on Mr. Melrose's money everything in life would be poisoned for me. I should always see the faces of those dead people whom I loved. I should hear their voices accusing. We should be in slavery slavery to a bad man and our souls would die "
There is a whole tribe of Melrose's hangers-on who hate Faversham like poison; who have been plotting to pull him down, and will be furious to find him after all in secure possession of the estate and the money. I feel tolerably certain they will put up some charge or other." "What of procuring the thing?" Undershaw nodded. Tatham considered a moment.
Chris was gone all day, but at four o'clock an urgent message was sent him, and he and Acton came into Mrs. Melrose's room about half an hour later, for the end. His face was ghastly, and he seemed almost unable to understand what was said to him, but he was very quiet. Norma never forgot the scene.
You will get a note from Lady Tatham to-night." She looked up startled. And then it came over her, that he had never really told her what he meant to do with Melrose's money. She had no precise idea. Their minds jumped together, and she saw the first laugh in his dark eyes. "I shan't tell you! Beloved be good and wait! But you guess already. We meet to-morrow at Duddon." She asked no question.
He says he never saw the younger son, and did not in fact know him by sight. He offered the elder one some money in order to help him with his Canadian start. The lad refused, not being willing, so his mother says I have seen her myself this morning to accept anything from Melrose's agent.
Melrose's house might be convenient: no visitors were to be feared at Versailles at the end of August, and though Susy's reasons for seeking solitude were so remote from those she had once prefigured, they were none the less cogent. To be alone alone!
"As to the right-of-way business, Melrose's fences are all up again, his rascally lawyers, Nash at the head, are as busy as bees trumping up his case; and I can only suppose that he has been forcing Faversham to write the unscrupulous letters about it that have been appearing in some of the papers.
The car sped once more through the gloom of the park. Victoria sat with hands locked on her knee, possessed by the after tremors of battle. In Melrose's inhuman will there was something demonic, which appalled. The impotence of justice, of compassion, in the presence of certain shameless and insolent forces of the human spirit the lesson goes deep! Victoria quivered under it.
But if I modify the terms of the will in your favour, I forfeit the estates. Besides isn't it monstrous damnable that Melrose's daughter should owe to charity the charity of a fellow who had never heard of Melrose or Threlfall six months ago what is her right her plain and simple right?" Victoria agreed.
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