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Presently his unhurrying mind grasped the fact that it was true; his heart blazed in his bosom; he threw back his head and, had his nose been larger, he would have sniffed the breeze like a warhorse. He advanced upon her in a quick, shambling slouch. Pollyooly saw his eager advance; but she affected not to see it.
Then he was taking his afternoon tea with the Honourable John Ruffin on the cedar lawn; Ronald and Pollyooly mindful of the cakes, had sociably joined them; and they were laughing at a story the Honourable John Ruffin was telling them, when he stopped short, staring at the entrance to the lawn. They turned to see the duchess standing in it, and surveying them with the eyes of an avenging angel.
He played his best, obeying with his natural clumsiness the shrieked commands of Pollyooly; but he did not again arise to a really meritorious feat. Nevertheless, the grand duke was content with him. He did not indeed watch him very closely; he had chiefly eyes for Pollyooly. Once he said with enthusiasm: "She is ze gompanion Adalbert 'af need of."
Pollyooly went back to the Lump content; but the Honourable John Ruffin kept his brow puckered by a thoughtful frown for some time after she had gone. Then he shrugged his shoulders, and his face resumed its wonted serenity. Three afternoons later there was a knocking at the door of the chambers; and Pollyooly opened it to find the Duke of Osterley standing on the threshold.
She promoted him to the use of his proper Christian name, and called him Roger. The duke had grown calm once more, and read a four-penny-half-penny magazine with every appearance of absorbed interest. In the motor car which carried them from Ricksborough station to the court, Pollyooly insisted on having the Lump on her knee.
I should be sorry indeed I should be deeply shocked if the Esmeralda were to fail in that duty." "Yes, sir," said Pollyooly in polite sympathy, though she had not the slightest notion what he meant. "Especially since I took such pains to present to her the true ideal the English ideal," he went on.
At half-past four Pollyooly said good-bye to the regretful Edward at the end of the High Street, whither he had accompanied her. She did not hurry up the hill, but as she went picked flowers to adorn the Honourable John Ruffin's chambers. When she did come into the garden, her eyes fell at once on the lawyer and the detective. They slept on the bench.
"Oh, to-morrow you will be with his grace, and my responsibility ends," said Mr. Wilkinson in a tone of some satisfaction. Pollyooly did not think that she would be with his grace on the morrow; but she did not say so. Presently they sat down on a seat; and under the influence of the slight meal of which he had recently partaken, Mr.
Therefore I have resolved to go away for a while to the sea." "Yes, sir," said Pollyooly in a tone of amiable congratulation.
Pollyooly had the firmest intention of dancing herself on the continent and in the Americas, and she applied herself to learning the French tongue with the vigour and tenacity with which she worked at her dancing. Miss Belthorp was astonished at the quickness with which she learnt; and she talked with enthusiasm to the duke of his daughter's gift for languages.
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