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She stood by the gate of a field, looking over the valley of the Axe to the hilly country that separates Dorset from Devon, seeing nothing because her eyes were full of tears. He slipped his arm from hers and put it round her waist and drew her close to him. "All right, mother!" he said. "My dear!" she said, reaching up and kissing him. They dined together on Ninian's last night in England.
"That's one of the reasons why they've come up," Ninian answered. Rachel Wynne and Mrs. Graham and Mary dined with them on the following evening, and it seemed to Henry when he saw Mary entering Ninian's sitting-room that she was a stranger to him. He had known her as a child and as a young, self-conscious girl, but this Mary was a woman.
"Ninian's coming up to-morrow ... sooner than he meant to. He's very keen on going to Harland and Wolff's, but he's afraid he's too old to begin building ships. Tom Arthurs says he ought to have gone straight to the Island from Rumpell's instead of going to Cambridge, and poor old Ninian was horribly blasphemous about it all.
Lady Cecily saw him coming, and she beckoned to him. "Who is that nice girl in the box?" she asked, as he sat down in Jimphy's seat. "She sat beside you...." "Oh, Ninian's sister," he replied. "Mary Graham." "She's very pretty, isn't she?" "Yes...."
It isn't just because other men have gone, and I don't feel any desire for revenge because Ninian's been killed ... it's just because England's England, I suppose...." She laughed a little nervously. "I can hardly expect you to feel about England as I do. You're Irish!.." "I've made that excuse for myself, Mary. Don't you make it for me.
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