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It mayn't be good manners to look a gift motor-veil in the talc, but I must admit that, glad as I was of its protection, mine was somewhat the worse for certain bubbles, cracks, and speckles; so whether or no Mr. Bane or Dane may combine the science of chauffeuring with that of physiognomy, it's certain that he had the air of being taken aback.
She put back her trailing motor-veil, and said: "And for a woman especially?" "It would take the strength of all the gods!... I mean, of course as women are placed, to-day. Perhaps in some other day perhaps to-morrow " He broke off suddenly; a change passed over his face. "And yet," he added, in a voice gentle and full of feeling "some of them are doing it to-day."
Anyhow, I'm recovering from the blow, and beginning to take notice as they say of babies and widows. That brown man of yours is a dream of beauty. Do you mind if I smoke?" "No. And he isn't mine," said Angela, taking off her motor-veil in front of the mirror. "Well, then, dear Princess, if he isn't yours, and you don't want him to play with, do hand him over to me.
And how I shall talk this trip over with you, when we're together again, and I know the end that's hiding behind the motor-veil of the future! Mother, dear, when I shut my eyes to-night, I see Barrows, billowing prehistorically along the horizon, and I see Stonehenge, black against a red sunset, and silver in the moonlight.
So. Now bring me a motor-veil and gloves. I shall do thus." Mrs. Talcott, while Louise with an air of profoundest gloom arrayed her mistress, kept silence, but when Louise had gone in search of the motor-veil she remarked in a low but imperative voice: "You'll get out at the roadside and wait for me, that's what you'll do. I won't have you along when I meet Karen.
It was a voice she knew, and if she could have stepped back into the car, pulled her motor-veil over her eyes, and asked Nick Hilliard to drive away, she would have been glad. But one does not do these things. One faces emergencies, and makes the best of them. Angela had been foolish, she told herself, not to think of running across somebody she knew.
She stood before them, the motor-veil thrown back from her dainty face, her slight figure quivering with merriment. Vera hastened to meet her with outstretched hands. "Oh, my dear, you can't think how anxious we have been about you." Doris took her by the shoulders and lightly kissed her. "Silly! Why? You know I always come up smiling. Why, Phil, you are looking positively green!
Their possessor had now thrown back her motor-veil, revealing a face Orientally dark and perfectly oval, with a clustering mass of dull gold hair, small, aquiline nose and full, red lips. Her weird eyes met mine for an instant, and then the long lashes drooped quickly, as she leant back against the cushions, with a graceful languor suggestive of the East rather than of the West.
The Princess was in ordinary blue serge, short and rather shabby, it having been subjected for hours daily during the past week to rough treatment by the maid now travelling to Cologne. As for her face and hair, they were completely hidden in the swathings of a motor-veil.
"I've often told you," I said, "that I'm writing a history of the Irish Rebellions. I naturally want to see one, and there isn't likely to be another in my time. That's my only reason for staying in Belfast." We found Lady Moyne waiting for us when we reached the hotel. She was wearing a long cloak, and had a motor-veil tied over her head. She was evidently prepared to start at once.
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