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Such was the play; and such was the power that stopped the play. A private man wrote it; another private man forbade it; nor was there any difference between Mr. Shaw's authority and Mr. Redford's, except that Mr. Shaw did defend his action on public grounds and Mr. Redford did not.
The trouble is that under the present system everything is done to increase them instead of bridging them over." "If you had to form a Government, then," Berenice asked, "you would not choose the members from one party?" "Certainly not," Mannering answered. "Supposing I were the owner of Redford's car there, and wanted a driver.
"This woman does not want you, Lawrence," she cried. "I do! Oh, Lawrence!" He faltered. She laid her fingers upon his arm. "Come down the steps," she murmured, "and I will show you Lady Redford's rose-garden." Her touch was compelling. He could not have resisted it. And about his heart lay the joy of her near presence.
Her hand was pressed to her side, her dark eyes were lit with passion. She leaned forward towards Borrowdean, and seemed about to strike him. "You will find yourself repaid for this, Sir Leslie," she murmured. Then she turned abruptly away. For an hour or more she walked alone amongst the trellised walks of Lady Redford's rose-garden. But Mannering did not return.
He could see Berenice reading the morning paper in the little grey courtyard, with the pigeons flying above her head and the sunlight streaming across the flags. He could hear Borrowdean's sneer, could see Lord Redford's shrug of the shoulders. There is little sympathy in the world for the man who dares to change his mind. There was a knock at the door, and his servant entered with a tray.
No word would he speak, but moaned continually without intermission, save when, in a burst of uncontrollable anguish, he gave vent to the terrible cry which so weighed on the spirits of the men, that they suggested to each other the propriety of throwing the father overboard after the son. Redford's report of his interview with the captain, however, prevented the suggestion being acted on.
"The Duchess and I, Lord Redford," he said, lightly, "scorn to take small advantages. We mean to play the game!" Blanche, in a plain black net gown, sat on Lord Redford's right hand at the hastily improvised dinner party that evening. Berenice, more subtly and more magnificently dressed, was opposite, by Mannering's side. The conversation seemed mostly to circle about them.
"By the bye, did you notice that he is included in the house party at Sandringham again this week?" Anstruther, the youngest Cabinet Minister, and Lord Redford's nephew, joined in the conversation. "I can tell you something for a fact," he said. "My cousin is Lady-in-Waiting, and she's been up in town for a few days, and she asked me about Mannering.
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