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Updated: May 11, 2025
Some women who knew my uncle, General Thesiger. They were in your hotel in Bruges, and they knew some other women staying in the pension. They saw my name in the visitors' book and it excited them. It all comes, you see, of my uncle being so beastly distinguished, so that they had to say they knew him. And then of course the other people chipped in and told them all they knew about me.
He said, No. But in six months he could afford it. He gave himself six months. I said, Anything might happen in six months. And if it did, it was just conceivable that she might marry me. He was determined to marry Miss Thesiger if he got the chance. I was determined to marry Miss Thesiger if I got the chance. At the present most of the chances, I owned, were in his favour.
Braithwaite beside Victoria, trying to look as if there was nothing unusual about Jevons or the situation. Thesiger alongside the others, turned round to present him, and watching him as he came on. Viola had turned and was looking at him too. And there were the subalterns at the tennis-net with Norah, doing unnecessary things to the net and trying not to look at him.
She said, "I believe there's a joke about Belgium, and that Mr. Furnival's in it." Viola laughed. It was, on the whole, the best thing she could do. If I'd giggled, too, it might have helped, but I didn't dare to, sitting there beside Mrs. Thesiger.
He said nothing. But I heard an inarticulate murmur, and I saw that in the darkness his arm went round her and drew her closer. And that, God forgive him, was his heaviest score up till now. In two days he had absorbed the Canterbury atmosphere. He was in it. In it as I wasn't and couldn't be. And the next day Canon and Mrs. Thesiger took him in hand by turns.
But there was one which angered her, and replacing it in its envelope, she tossed it so petulantly aside that it slid off the iron table and fell at Sylvia's feet. Sylvia stooped and picked it up. It had fallen face upward. "This is from my father." Mrs. Thesiger looked up startled. It was the first time that Sylvia had ever spoken of him to her. A wariness come into her eyes. "Well?" she asked.
"Miss Thesiger," I said, hurriedly, "do not be unkind to me. I know I am very presumptuous, but do, pray do, give me one kind look before you go." Then she raised her eyes and looked at me. Alas! my tell-tale face. They fell again, and the crimson flush mounted to her white brow. I could say no more to her after that.
"It's a good thing, Wally," she said. "It'll knit us all tighter together. That's partly why we've wanted it so awfully. Do you know that if it hadn't been for you Norah wouldn't have been allowed to come and stay with us?" I said I was sure she was mistaken. Canon Thesiger "Oh," she said, "it wasn't Daddy. He wouldn't have minded. It was Mummy. She never could bear poor Jimmy."
Lady Thesiger was the first to speak. "We shall be delighted to do all that lies in our power to soften Miss Trevelyan's terrible affliction. Pray, pardon me, Sir Edgar, but is Mademoiselle d'Aubergne still at Crown Anstey?" "She is staying there as a companion to my sister, who is utterly incapable of taking any share in the management of the house." "You must find a wife," said Sir John.
"It is better to speak plainly," I continued, "in a case like this better for both. Listen to me, and believe, Coralie, that even had I never seen Miss Thesiger, I forgive me, but it is the truth I should never have loved you with more than a cousin's love; my friendship, my esteem, my care, are all yours; more I can never give you." Pray God I may never see another woman as I saw her then.
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