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Going on, he met the Iver carriage; Iver and Neeld sat in it, side by side; they waved their hands in careless greeting and went on talking earnestly. On the outskirts of the town he came on Miss Swinkerton and Mrs Trumbler walking together.
You'll remember that I told you that two months ago, Mrs Trumbler." "Yes, Miss Swinkerton, but that was before all the " "Really I'm not often wrong, my dear," interrupted Miss S. decisively. "Well, I hope there won't be any more changes," sighed Mrs Trumbler. "They're so very startling." She might rest in peace awhile.
"Yes, I think I've launched uncle," said she complacently, "and now I shall devote myself to the Tristrams." "You've been doing that for a long time, my dear." "Yes, I suppose I have really," she laughed. "I've been a sort of Miss Swinkerton I wish you knew her! Only I devoted myself to one family and she does it for all the neighborhood." Lady Evenswood looked at her with a kindly smile.
Shall we keep Miss S. in the dark for a week more?" The thought of Miss Swinkerton carried obvious amusement with it. "You mean to choose your opportunity with with your cousin?" Neeld asked. "Yes, exactly to choose my opportunity. You see the difficult character of the situation? I ask your absolute silence for a week." "Really I " Old Neeld hesitated a little.
While full of these problems, refusing indeed to be anything else, Mina was surprised by a visit from Miss Swinkerton, who sought a subscription for the scheme of which an inadequate account has already been given. She lived for good works and by gossip. "What do you mean by being in love, Miss Swinkerton?"
Mina and Neeld did not quite understand why Cecily turned so suddenly and put her hand in Harry's, saying, "No, Harry, there's no difference now." Meanwhile, down in Blentmouth, Miss Swinkerton looked up from the local paper and remarked across the table to Mrs Trumbler: "Here's an announcement that Lady Tristram will give a ball at Blent in January.
"At two on Saturday, miss," they heard him reply. Miss Swinkerton nodded, and walked slowly past the carriage, giving the occupants a leisurely stare. Of course Miss S. had known the time of the funeral quite well; now her intimates would be made equally well acquainted with the appearance of the visitors.
But why do I take Janie to Mingham?" "They'd say that Bob Broadley's no real danger, and if it should disgust Harry Tristram " "I am clever! Dear Miss Swinkerton, I never thought of anything half so good myself. I'll tell uncle about it directly." Miss S. looked at her suspiciously. The innocence seemed very much over-done. "I knew you'd laugh at it," she observed.
Should you object?" "Oh, no," said Harry, again with the weary indifference that seemed to have fastened on him now. "I've been gossiping," she said, "with Mrs Trumbler and Miss Swinkerton." "Good Lord!" "Miss Swinkerton says your engagement to Janie will be announced directly after the funeral." "And Major Duplay says that directly it's announced !" "You don't mean to tell me anything about it?"
It has been seen, for instance, that Miss Swinkerton and her friends could be very excited, although they had not the excuse of youth, of dreams, or of any kinship with the Tristrams. "It's begun!" Cecily said to herself when, three days afterward, they got out of their third-class carriage and got into the landau that waited for them.
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