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Though her deliverance was yet to be achieved, though she dreaded unspeakably that which lay before her, at least the door was open, could she but reach it to pass through. She breathed a purer air already. And beside her stood Greatheart the valiant, covering her with his shield of gold. A large and merry party of guests were congregated in the great hall at Perrythorpe Court, having tea.
He smiled at her somewhat sadly. "If you think my help worth having," he said. "But of course it is," she made warm answer. "You are the strong man who helps everyone. You are Greatheart." He looked at her still smiling and slowly shook his head. "Now, if you don't mind," he said, "I will write my note to Isabel." The afternoon was well advanced when Scott returned to Perrythorpe Court.
They were both splashed with mud from shoulder to heel. They had both had more than enough of the wet and the slush. "That's right, Rupert, my boy!" the man murmured. "Finish in style!" They came out from beneath the over-arching trees, emerging upon the high road that led from Great Mallowes to Perrythorpe.
And then they glided up to the wide steps of his home and the door opened to receive them, showing Scott Scott her friend standing in the opening, awaiting her. She sprang to meet him with a cry of delight, both hands extended. "Oh, it is good to see you again! It is good! It is good!" she panted. "Why didn't you come to Perrythorpe? I did want you there!" He grasped her hands very tightly.
"Do you," she said, speaking with evident effort, "think that Eustace should be sent for?" "Does she want him?" said Scott. "I don't know. She never speaks of him. But then that may be for my sake." Dinah's voice was very low and not wholly free from distress. "And again it may be on my account he is keeping away. She hasn't seen him for these two months not since we left Perrythorpe."
She obeyed, with shining eyes upon him. "Now, why didn't you come over to Perrythorpe? You haven't told me yet." "I was busy," he answered. "I had to get home." His eyes were shining also. She did not need to be told that he was glad to see her. He rang for tea and sat down somewhere near in his usual unobtrusive fashion.
She knew that the little social world of Perrythorpe looked down upon her mother though not actually refusing to associate with her. Bathurst had married a circus-girl in his green Oxford days; so the story went, a hard, handsome woman older than himself, and fiercely, intensely ambitious. Lack of funds had prevented her climbing very high, and bitterly she resented her failure.
I think it would be such a relief to know." Dinah uttered a sharp sigh. "It's no good talking," she said. "Only one thing is certain. I'm not going to break with Billy of course, but I'll never go back to Perrythorpe again, never as long as I live!" There was a quiver of passion in her voice. She looked at Scott with what was almost a challenge in her eyes. He did not answer it.
The letter that reached Sir Eustace two days later was penned by the Colonel's hand, and contained a brief but cordial invitation to him and his following to stay at Perrythorpe Court for the wedding. He read it with a careless smile and tossed it over to Scott. "Here is magnanimity," he commented. "Shall we accept the coals of fire?" Scott read with all gravity and laid it down.
"You look more like Apollo than ever," she whispered, awe-struck, "when you frown like that. Is anything the matter?" His brow cleared magically at her action. "I began to think I should have to come down to Perrythorpe and fetch you," he said, grasping the little nervous fingers. "I thought you meant to give me the slip if you could." "Oh no!" said Dinah, shocked at the suggestion.
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