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"Oh, I am going," says Rylton bitterly. He goes a step or two away from her, and then pauses as if loath to leave her. "You might at least shake hands with me," says he. She hesitates then lays a cold little hand in his. He too hesitates, then, stooping, presses his lips warmly, lingeringly to it. In another moment he is gone. Tita stands motionless, listening to his departing footsteps.
So I got behind that screen, and and" She pauses. "Well, that's all," says she. "You see it was not my fault," says Margaret. She lets a passing glance fall on Rylton, and with an increase of dignity in her air leaves the room. The two left behind look strangely at each other. "So you were listening?" says Rylton. "Listening all that time?" "You wrong me as usual. I was not listening all the time.
"That's what made them so funny," said Gower afterwards. And now Margaret makes a little excuse and goes too, but not before she has asked Maurice to stay to dinner. "Oh, thank you!" says Rylton, and then hesitates; but after a glance at Tita's face, most reluctantly, and a little hopelessly, as it seems to Margaret, declares he has a previous engagement.
"I beg your pardon," says Rylton, interrupting her quickly. "Speak for yourself only. For my part, I have no desire to be separated from you now, or," steadily, "at any other time." Tita lifts her eyes and looks at him. Their glances meet, and there is something in his that brings the blood to her face. "I cannot understand you," cries she, with some agitation.
The very fact that their cases had been so suddenly and so marvellously reversed made her the more strong in her determination to spurn any gift from him. She was now sitting on the lowest rung of Fortune's ladder, whilst he stood at the top; but, for all that, she would take nothing from him. Rylton wrote to Margaret, who scolded Tita vigorously to no end; and so the matter stood.
"I think I should like to have known your father," says Rylton, admiring the pride in her gray eyes. "It would have done you good," returns she thoughtfully. She pauses, as if still thinking, and then, "As for me, I have not been good at all since I lost him." "One can see that," says Rylton. "Crime sits rampant in your eyes."
And it was only when hope was dead when life seemed worthless that you married me." "She told you that all that?" asks Rylton; he has caught her hand. "All that and more." Tita is smiling now, but very pitifully. "But that was enough. Why take it to heart? It is nothing, really. It does not concern us. Of course, I always knew. You told me that you did not love me."
It certainly pays. It is only the goody-goodies who go to the wall." "My dear Marian!" says Lady Rylton, with a delicate pretence at horror; she puts up her hands, but after a second or so bursts out laughing. "I always say you are the one creature who amuses me," cries she, leaning back, and giving full play to her mirth. "I never get at you, somehow.
"I don't think much of it myself," says Rylton, with increasing gloom. At this abject surrender Margaret's tender heart relents. "I believe all you have told me," says she; "and I suppose I'm glad of it, although Well, never mind that. Marian deserves no pity, but still " "Pshaw!" says he. "What has Marian got to do with it? Marian never cared that about me."
It is a charming laugh, apparently full of mirth. There are only two present who do not quite believe in it, Margaret and Tom Hescott but these two love her. As for Rylton, some instinct causes him at this moment to look at Hescott. Tita's cousin is staring at her, his brows met, his lips somewhat compressed.
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