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Updated: May 26, 2025
I never had seen mountains before, an' I cried at first an' begged her to make 'em sit down. A trip is something you never will fergit in all yer life. It was jes like Mrs. Reddin' to think about it; but I don't wonder she feels good to you. Asia says she never expects to see anything like the way you shook that candy outen little Robert.
Reddin was startled when he saw Hazel, who had out-distanced Edward, making straight for his hiding-place. She came running between the boles with an easy grace, an independence that drove him frantic. A pretty woman should not have that easy grace; she should have exchanged it for a matronly bearing by this time, and independence should have yielded to subservience to the male, to him.
He's stronger'n you. Do 'ee go back, Ed'ard! 'Never! till you come, too. 'I like that, said Reddin. 'Can't you see she's got my gown on her back? She's mine. She was never yours. He looked meaningly and triumphantly at Edward. 'Oh, dunna, Jack! What for do you go to shame me? said Hazel, twisting her hands. Edward took no notice of her.
She was turned out of the Eden of the past that she had known in wood and meadow. She was denied the Eden of the future that she might have had in Edward's love. She had the present Reddin unless the other woman had robbed her of him also. She sat down in the heavy shadows of the trees at the far side of Undern Pool. The water looked cold and ghastly even on this golden day.
'Why canna he get beyond them five words? asked Hazel. 'He allus stops and goes back like a dog on a chain. She sang it through in her high clear voice. There was silence in the kitchen. Reddin stared at Hazel. 'Who taught you to sing? he asked. 'Father. He's wonderful with the music, is father. Hazel found that in the presence of strangers her feeling for her father was almost warm.
Prize-giving time came, and the younger Miss Clomber, who was to present them, tried to persuade Reddin to go up on the platform, a lorry with chairs on it. There already were Mr. James and the secretary, counting the prize-money. Below stood the winners, Vessons conspicuous in his red waistcoat. Miss Clomber felt that she looked well.
Reddin never noticed. Vessons suited his needs, and he always had such meals as he liked. Vessons was a bachelor. Monasticism had found, in a countryside teeming with sex, one silent but rabid disciple. If Vessons ever felt the irony of his own presence in a breeding stable, he never said so.
'You trapped her; you would have betrayed her. But, thank God! a young girl's innocence is a wonderful and powerful thing. Reddin was astounded. Could Marston really be such a fool as to believe in Hazel still? 'The innocent young girl he began, but Hazel struck him on the mouth. 'All right, spitfire! he said; 'mum's the word. He was surprisingly good-humoured.
'Because I say so. 'But why so far, whatever? she asked amazedly. 'Because I want you to. 'But I mun go to chapel along of Ed'ard, and sing 'ymns proper wi' the folks and me singing higher nor any of them can go, for all I'm new to it and the old lady' her face grew mischievous 'the old lady in a shiny silk gownd as creaks and creaks when she stirs about! Reddin lost patience.
Suddenly a shout rang across the hill and silenced her and the woodlarks. She saw against the full-blown flower of the west black on scarlet Reddin on his tall black horse, galloping towards her. Clouds were coming up for night. They raced with him. From one great round rift the light poured on Hazel as it does from a burning-glass held over a leaf.
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