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I said that you had made me this magnificent offer, prompted, I felt sure, by the purest chivalry; and that I felt I owed it to my family, my friends and my reputation to accept it, but that you had left my heart untouched, and that if he and you were both penniless, I should prefer him to you. That wasn't all perfectly true." Suddenly Riatt found himself smiling.
Riatt felt inclined to point out that she, with her muff held up to her face, was not making the greatest sacrifice to the ideal of duty. "Have you any very clear idea where your house is?" he asked. His tone was not flattering, and Christine was quick to feel it. "Do I know where I live five months of the year?" she returned. "Of course I do. It's just over this next hill."
She got up with a shrewd smile. "Let me congratulate you, too, Mr. Riatt," she said. "I always like to see people get what they deserve." "Oh, Nancy, I'm sure you think I'm getting far more than I deserve," said Christine. "You haven't actually got it yet, darling," returned Mrs. Almar. "That sounds almost like a threat, my dear." "More in the line of a prophecy."
"A high order of affection," exclaimed Riatt. "He was content enough until there seemed some chance of your being happy." "Perhaps he did not consider that life with you would promise absolute happiness, Max." "I don't call that love. I call it jealousy." At this Christine laughed outright. "And what emotion, may I ask, has just brought you here in such haste?" The thrust went home.
"Linburne's offer is not by any chance the reward for my giving Christine a suitable release?" Hickson was really shocked. "How can you think such a thing, Riatt?" "Where did you see Linburne?" Hickson hesitated, but confessed after some protest that it had been at Christine's house. "But you don't understand, you really don't," he said.
"I'm a little too busy at the moment to explain it to you," Riatt answered, "but I promise to take it up with you at a later date." There was something that sounded almost like a threat in this. She turned away, and walking to the window stood staring out into the darkness. He was really quite a disagreeable young man, she thought.
"Why, as long as you recognize the impossibility of the marriage, couldn't you in some way make it appear that the breaking of the engagement came from you as if " "I see," said Riatt. There was a short silence, and then he asked in a tone that sounded perfectly calm to Hickson: "Is this a message from Christine?" "Oh, no.
Christine held out her hand with the gesture of a queen. "And I very gratefully accept your generous offer," she said. "Well, heaven itself can't save a fool," said Mrs. Almar, and she went out of the room, and slammed the door after her. As she went, Riatt actually flung the hand of his newly affianced wife from him. "May I ask," he said, "what you think you are doing?"
Even a suggestion of adverse criticism was unpleasant to Miss Fenimer. She was not accustomed to it; and she answered with some sharpness: "Yes, but the road is real, whereas I understand your embarrassment through the attentions of ladies is purely fictitious." Riatt wondered how fictitious, but he turned the cutter about in obedience to her commands.
She looked calm, almost Olympian, as she laid her hand on Laura's arm. "Let me have just a word alone with Mr. Riatt," she said; and as Laura precipitately left the room, Christine turned to Riatt with a reassuring smile. "Don't be alarmed," she said. "Your most dangerous antagonist has just gone. I've really come to rescue you." She sank into a chair. "How exhausting scenes are.
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