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"And you choose to forget altogether that Lord Parham is William's political chief that William's affairs are in a critical state, and everything depends on Lord Parham that it is not seemly, not possible, that William's wife should publicly slight Lady Parham, and through her the Prime Minister at this moment of all moments." Lady Tranmore breathed fast.
I looked a precious fool, you know, standing on those steps, while you were keeping old Mother Parham and the whole show waiting!" She looked at him a moment in silence, at his heightened color and insistent eyes. "I can't think what made you marry me," she said, slowly. Ashe laughed, and came nearer.
Lord Parham had no mind to give him the precedence that he wanted; was, in fact, determined on something quite different. But he was well aware by now that Ashe was a person to be reckoned with; and he had so far taken refuge in vagueness an amiable vagueness, by which Ashe, on their walk before dinner, had been much taken in, misled no doubt by the strength of his own wishes.
It had roused an indolent man to action, and freed him from any particular obligation towards the leader who had ill-treated him. Ashe's campaign had not been in all respects convenient; but Lord Parham had had to put up with it. The summer evening broadened as the two men sauntered on through the park, beside a small stream fringed with yellow flags.
A flower-show in the morning; then a tenants' dinner with a speech from Ashe; and now, in a marquee erected for the occasion, Lord Parham was addressing his supporters in the county.
But, apart from the family pride in him, and that of Miss Elmy and other friends at Parham, Crabbe's reception by his former friends and neighbours in Aldeburgh was not of the kind he might have hoped to receive.
Speak up!" from the audience, who had so far failed to catch a word of what the new speaker was saying. "What is the matter? You really can't get through here!" said a gray-haired dowager crossly to Eddie Helston. Lord Parham looked at the paper in mystification. It contained these words: "Hope you've been counting the 'I's. I make it fifty-seven.
And on the morrow I went on my way, still through as fair a country as is to be found in all South England, through Storrington, and so by way of Parham Park, with its noble Elizabethan house and little church with the last leaden font in Sussex, a work of the fourteenth century, to Amberley in the meads of the Arun, a dear and beautiful place.
She gave a sound between a laugh and a sob, and, raising her hands, she smoothed back his curly hair and held his face between them. "When do you see Lord Parham?" she asked. "Eight o'clock in his room at the House. I'll send you up a note." "You'll be home early?" "No don't wait for me." She dropped her hands, after giving him a kiss on the cheek. "I know where you're going!
That's why, I suppose, he didn't hear the carriage. John!" She called a footman. "Tell Mr. Ashe that Lord Parham has arrived!" The Premier opened astonished eyes. "Does Ashe generally study the Scriptures of an afternoon?" Kitty nodded with her most confiding smile. "When he can. He says" she dropped her voice to a theatrical whisper "the Bible is such a 'd d interesting' book!"
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