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Therefore they did not press their visitors to remain and tactfully arranged that one of the servants instead of Roger should drive the Spences back over the Harbor Road. As the motor purred its way along, there was little conversation.
"I think very likely it is, Miriam," answered Eleanor, when her husband showed that he left her to do so. "I understand." To which remark Eleanor, when Miriam was gone, attached the interrogative, "I wonder whether she does?" The Spences did not feel it incumbent upon them to direct her in the matter; it were just as well if she followed a mistaken clue. Two days later, Mrs.
The house in Chelsea, which the Spences held on a long lease, had been occupied during their absence by Edward's brother-in-law and his family.
The next day Mallard brought his picture again to the hotel, and spent nearly an hour with Mrs. Lessingham and Cecily in their sitting-room. Miriam heard of this on her return from a. solitary walk, and heard, moreover, that Mallard had been showing his friends a number of little drawings which he had never offered to let her or the Spences see.
Dudgeon, of Leith, was related to him, he said "He is my mother's cousin and my stepmother's cousin, and my father-in-law's cousin, and my mother-in-law's cousin." Except for Spences and Wauchopes there was not a relative of my father that was not related to my mother. Grandfather Brodie married his cousin, and Grandfather Spence married his late wife, Janet Parks cousin Katherine Swanston.
His brow darkened, and he seemed about to utter something not unlike his vehemencies on the day of arrival. "You must judge for yourself, of course," said Miriam. "We won't talk about it." Reuben nodded agreement carelessly. Then he began to talk of his proposed work, and presently they went to join the Spences.
On the following day, the Spences dined from home, and Miriam, who had excused herself from accompanying them, sat through the evening in their drawing-room. The weather was wretched; a large fire made the comfort within contrast pleasantly enough with sounds of wind and rain against the house.
At present, the thought of calm conversation with such a woman made a soothing contrast to the riot excited in him by Cecily. Did she read his mind? For one thing, it was not impossible that the Spences had spoken freely in her presence of himself and his odd relations to the girl; there was no doubting how they regarded him.
"Then you know nothing of her reason for not doing so?" "Nothing whatever." Elgar became silent. The artist, after moving about quietly, turned to question him with black brows. "Hasn't it occurred to you that she may have joined Mrs. Lessingham in the country?" "She has taken nothing not even a travelling-bag." "You come, of course, from the Spences' house?" Elgar replied with an affirmative.
Miriam took the letter, and in a few minutes went back again to her room. At nine o'clock in the evening, the Spences, who sat alone, received the foreseen visit from Mallard. They welcomed him silently. As he sat down, he had a smile on his face; he drew a letter deliberately from his pocket, and, without preface, began to read it aloud, still in a deliberate manner.
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