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Silence for a time; and then Miss Rowly's voice again: 'Though it would not do for the world to know that a young maiden lady had paid the debts of a vicious young man, it makes no matter if they be paid by an old woman, be the same maid, wife, or widow! And really, my dear, I do not see how any money I might have could be better spent than in keeping harm away from you.
When Harold turned the corner under the shadow of the oaks he saw a belated road-mender, surrounded by some gaping peasants, pointing excitedly in the distance. The man, who of course knew him, called to him to stop. 'What is it? he asked, reining up. 'It be Squire Rowly's bays which have run away with him. Three on 'em, all in a row and comin' like the wind.
She had no companion now but her aunt; and though the old lady adored her, and she returned her love in full, the mere years between them made impossible the companionship that youth craves. Miss Rowly's life was in the past. Stephen's was in the future. And loneliness is a feeling which comes unbidden to a heart. Stephen felt her loneliness all round.
They had, of course, been often in each other's houses, and Rowly's young sister almost a generation younger than himself, and the sole fruit of his father's second marriage had been like a little sister to him too. She had, in the twenty years which had elapsed, grown to be a sweet and beautiful young woman.
But he contented himself with saying, 'Rowly's a capital fellow, Netta, fach, and doing his best. Whether he's a fashionable preacher or not I don't know, but he kept us all awake at Llanfach one Sunday for half-an-hour, which is something. 'Your brother is so amusing! so naïf! I die of him! said Madame Duvet. 'Very original! remarked Miss Simpson; 'I do like originality
'Miss Norman, I meant! Miss Rowly's answer to this came so smartly that it left an added sting. Her arrow was fledged with two feathers so that it must shoot true: her distrust of him and his own impotence. 'Oh no! Miss Norman knows nothing of this. She simply asked me to give you the money. This is my own doing entirely. You see, I must exercise my judgment on my dear niece's behalf.
The gentleman smiled, and thought the question savoured of American curiosity. 'I have a son a clergyman. Perhaps you may have fallen in with him. They tell me he's a very promising young man. 'What is his name? 'Prothero, sir Rowland Prothero. 'I do not know him personally, but I know him by reputation; he is curate of an old friend of mine, Mr Stephenson. 'To be seure Rowly's rector!
Seeing that he could not achieve his object in any other way, he said out suddenly, thinking, and rightly, that she would not wish to force an issue in the presence of her aunt: 'By the way, Miss Norman, he had always called her 'Miss Norman' in her aunt's presence: 'I want to have two minutes with you before I go. On a matter of business, he added, noticing Miss Rowly's surprised look.
Again he had put himself in a false position. He could not say that it was to his father he had made the promise; for he had already told Stephen that he had been afraid to tell him of his debts. In his desperation, for Miss Rowly's remorseless glasses were full on him, he said: 'I thought I was justified in making the promise after what you said about the pleasure it would be to help me.
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