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English a lift. "Shall I send the motor back for you?" she asked, just as they moved away. Dick shook his head. "Swetenham is going to give me a lift out," he answered her, and Dr. English chuckled an explanation as they rolled away. "What it is to be young, eh, Mrs. Jarvis? One can find beauty even in the chorus of a travelling company." But was that the explanation? Mabel wondered.
She turned rather feverishly and started rubbing the make-up off her face with Fanny's rag. The other girl, meanwhile, slipped behind a curtain which hung across one side of the room and finished her dressing, carrying on an animated conversation with Swetenham all the time. Dick drew a little closer to Joan. "Why do you come?" he asked. "You know you hate it and us."
Swetenham my pictures my beauties my ewe-lambs that I have been gathering for twenty years that the National Gallery shall have, when I'm gone, if it behaves itself. And she asked me if they were originals, and took my Luini for a Raphael! Yes! it will be a column, said the Ambassador pensively. Then, with a brisk change, he looked up and took the hand that Lucy offered him. 'Good-bye good-bye!
Fanny was staying behind for another day; she had some amusement in store with Swetenham which she did not want to miss, but the rest of the company, Joan included, caught the three o'clock train back to town.
At the end of the first act Swetenham leant across and asked if he was coming out for a drink. It may have been that the younger man had noticed Dick's intense interest in the dancer, or perhaps it was merely because he wished to air a familiarity which struck him as delightfully bold, anyway, as they strolled about outside he put a suggestion to Dick.
He took a despairing glance round him and wondered if it would be possible to go and lose himself after the first act. Then the lights went out abruptly and the curtain went up. The beginning chorus dragged distinctly; Dick heard Swetenham whispering to his companions that it would be better when the principals came on.
He moved forward impulsively, and Fanny, noticing the movement, turned with a little laugh. "I had forgotten," she said; "my manners are perfectly scandalous. Joan, come out of your corner and be introduced. Mr. Swetenham is going to take us to supper at the 'Grand, so he has just confided into my shell-like ear. I can do with a bit of supper, can't you?" Joan dragged her eyes away from Dick.
Dick's face had not looked as if he had found anything beautiful in the performance. Swetenham and Dick made their way round to the side entrance of the town hall which acted as stage door on these occasions, after they had seen the rest of the party off, and Swetenham found someone to take his card up to Miss Bellairs.
As he advanced he was met by Captain Swetenham, who informed him of the raising of the standard and the gathering he had witnessed. As, however, only Locheil's clansmen had arrived before Swetenham left, Cope considered his force ample for the purpose, and continued his march.
"Yes," the other answered, "I met her last time she was down here, and the other is a great pal of hers." He looked sideways at his companion as they went in under the lights; it occurred to him that Grant was either in a bad temper or had a headache, he looked anyway not in the least jovial. Swetenham almost regretted his rash invitation.
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