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But Jevons wouldn't hear of it. He knew they were short and Thesiger didn't, and he'd insisted on their doing Thesiger first. It was an awful mistake, he said, because it would hurt Jevons ten times more than it would hurt anybody else. He thought that I had better get Mrs. Jevons out of that room; the ward where they were operating was next to it. I couldn't get her out of it.
Colville had secret orders that, if we were not back by midnight, he was to take Viola on to Bruges in his car, and wait for us there. For we knew now that we were in for it. And we knew that the war, which was coming closer and closer to the city, was coming closer to us. It had been Charlie Thesiger first, now it might be Reggie.
And to-day which was Tuesday he had seen Charlie Thesiger. He had found him lying dangerously wounded in the British Hospital at Antwerp. That, he said, was what had kept him there. And he had brought him back with him to Ghent. He was in the Couvent de Saint Pierre. He thought, perhaps, it would be better not to tell Viola just yet. Charlie didn't know, he said, that she was here.
He was very nearly off once or twice. Only we just managed to get in in time." "Who got in in time?" "Oh, it wasn't only me, Furny, it was all of us. We were all out trying to stop him Charlie and Reggie and Uncle Billy he pulled all the ropes we couldn't do much." "But what what did General Thesiger do?" "He didn't 'do' anything. He hadn't got to. He just said things. Told them about Jimmy."
And so you see how carefully I had prepared his path for him one afternoon he turned up at my rooms, uninvited, between four and five. He said he remembered I had told him I should be free at that hour. He remembered. Yes; I don't think Tasker Jevons ever forgot anything, anything likely to be useful to him, in his life. And he hadn't been with me ten minutes before Viola Thesiger came in.
We sat round the large center-table on which the folios lay open, Sir John, who took great delight in such things, explaining to Lady Thesiger. I was showing Agatha those I liked best, when quite unexpectedly, Coralie entered the room. The moment I saw her face I knew that she meant mischief. Surely, woman's face never had so hard, so wicked a look before. Sir John rose and bowed.
Thesiger also fought shy of her son-in-law. Norah and Victoria took him by turns that day. I noticed that he got on very well with Norah. She knocked balls over the net for him all morning. In the evening, after dinner, we all sat out in the garden. Canon and Mrs. Thesiger soon left us; Victoria followed them; and Viola and Norah and Jevons and I sat on till long after dark.
God knows what thirst she satisfied, what bitterness she exhausted, what secret anguish she avenged. They were all there, the Thesiger women they had come, you see, to meet Reggie Victoria and Millicent and Mildred; and they heard her. But it was Mildred who saw. She spoke to her mother. "Can't you see?" she said.
He waved his hand generally to the chain of Mont Blanc and drifted largely away. Mrs. Thesiger, however, was to hear more definitely of that message two days later. It was after dinner.
He had a high sense of honour, and was replete with a quiet, subtle humour, which seemed to come upon you unawares, and, like all true humour, derived no little of its pleasure from its surprise. In addition to his abilities, Thesiger was ever kind-hearted and gentle, especially in his manner towards juniors. I know that he sympathized with them, and helped them whenever he had an opportunity.
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