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I wonder I never thought of that. I'll ask him. I will not take my bills to Judge Baker to be lectured on the dodo and on lines of social cleavage as if any man could be a match for me. I'll never go back to Aunt Frank! There is Bellmer, now and Strathay must soon return to New York, to sail. May 20. I wonder if I couldn't earn money. For the last week nothing but trouble. No check from Father.
Other women take husbands so. I like him; I should like him even if he were not an Earl and his name a career. I shall make Strathay as fine a Countess as any cold, blonde English girl, and he'll be proud of me, and every man will envy him. I shall wrong him less than I should have wronged John Burke.
If only Strathay had seen me once more, no power on earth could have prevented an avowal; and marriage with a peer of England would have given me a station befitting my beauty. But perhaps it's not too late. Strathay may not heed his cousin. If he comes wooing again, I shall not be so silly as I was the last time. Strange that I have not seen him. Can he have gone already?
"Lay ye three to one say twenties that he gets away, like that Strathay " I addressed some smiling speech to the wretches, but through the whole evening my cheeks did not cease to burn. When the last guest had gone, tired and hysterical as she was, Mrs. Whitney began a long tirade. "It must be stopped! It must be stopped!" she cried, pacing back and forth. The blaze of anger improved her.
And there's only one way Strathay. I've been foolish to hesitate. He tried to speak yesterday, after the flower tea for that's the extent of my social shining now; I am good to draw a crowd at a bazaar! and I should have let him; I meant to do so. But I can't blame myself for being sentimental, weak, and for putting him off; I was tired out. What an ordeal I'd undergone!
And the problem: "How high can we climb?" Why, there are twenty thousand families in New York rich enough to be Elect, if wealth were all. I could almost marry Strathay to save him from the ugly millioned girls! How they hate me! I know what love is like, now; Strathay means to speak.
I even rehearsed the scene we should enact when Strathay should speak; I foresaw the flush upon his face, the sparkle of his eyes when I should tell him that I would try to love him. He must have slipped his cousin's leash, for he was at the Nicaragua almost as soon as I was.
Poultney; and wherever I went Strathay's eyes followed me wistfully. Meg danced with Strathay and amused me by her elation. She hadn't really recovered from it to-day. To-day! Blessed to-day! Lord Strathay's only an Earl; to-day there came to me Ned! Oh, this has been the gladdest, most provoking day of my life, for I had only a moment with him. It was Mrs.
Though what was to be gained by waiting? What must be must be. Indeed an older man might have seen the wisdom of speaking at once. But Strathay looked wistfully at me for a moment, then turned away with a big, honest schoolboy sigh; and something like a sob broke his voice as he whispered: "I I would do anything to serve you." Then he went away. Perverse! I will marry him.
Hugh Bellmer I have not seen. Strathay has really gone, spirited away by that superior cousin. And Mrs. Whitney has deserted me oh, if it were not for money troubles, I wouldn't mind that, cruel as was the manner of it! Of course the newspapers soon learned that Strathay had left town. Trust them for that; and to make sensational use of it!
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