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Updated: June 13, 2025
And there were interviews between Lady Milborough and Trevelyan, and interviews between Lady Milborough and Nora Rowley.
Poor Emily Trevelyan was humble enough now to Lady Milborough, was prepared to be humble to any one, and in any circumstances, so that she should not be required to acknowledge that she had entertained Colonel Osborne as her lover.
Circumstances, he thought, were cruel to him beyond compare, in that he should have been made to suffer so great torment without having any of the satisfaction of revenge. Even Lady Milborough, with all her horror as to the Colonel, could not tell him that the Colonel was amenable to any punishment.
She had not on that occasion been suited with a husband, but she had gained a friend. "My dear," said Lady Milborough, as at her request Nora took off her hat, "I am afraid that the parties are mostly over, that is, those I go to; but we will drive out every day, and the time won't be so very long."
"I hope not, Lady Milborough, because we are all especially fond of him." This was said with so much of purpose, that poor, dear old Lady Milborough was stopped in her good work. She knew well the terrible strait to which Augustus Poole had been brought with his wife, although nobody supposed that Poole's wife had ever entertained a wrong thought in her pretty little heart.
Trevelyan was impatient, as indeed it was her nature to be in all matters, and consequently, authorized as she had been by her husband's manner of speaking of his mother's friend, she had taken a habit of quizzing Lady Milborough behind her back, and almost of continuing the practice before the old lady's face.
"Very unnecessary, indeed, as I think." "Yes, my dear, yes. But, of course, we must remember " Then Lady Milborough could not clearly bring to her mind what it was that she had to remember. "The fact is, my dear, that all this kind of thing is too monstrous to be thought of.
Then it was that Lady Milborough spoke of the small town in the west of France, urging as her reason that such a man as Colonel Osborne would certainly not follow them there; but Trevelyan had become indignant at this, declaring that if his wife's good name could be preserved in no other manner than that, it would not be worth preserving at all.
The pride has gone out of me so, that I do not regard what anybody may say. Of course, it will be said that I went astray, and that he forgave me." "Nobody will say that, dearest; nobody. Lady Milborough is quite aware how it all was." "What does it signify? There are things in life worse even than a bad name." "But he does not think it?" "Nora, his mind is a mystery to me.
And she might have had anything that she liked, anything! It is hard, Lady Milborough; is it not?" Lady Milborough, who had seen the angry brow, did not dare to suggest Naples again. But yet, if any word might be spoken to prevent this utter wreck of a home, how good a thing it would be! He had got up to leave her, but she stopped him by holding his hand.
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