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I asked him, "How long?" He said, "Till she's had time to get over him." Mrs. "Wait," she said, "at any rate, another week." She had given her, as Jevons would have said, a week. I waited. I stayed with the Thesigers a week. In fact, I stayed ten days. I got used to the chimes and slept through them. I played chess with Mrs.
I was, as Jevons had said I should be, "in it." And, as I made my running, I thought with some remorse of that unfortunate one, languishing in Bruges on his parole. But Canterbury would have been no use to Jevons if he had been there. There's no doubt that I did something for the Thesigers in those ten days. I had effaced Jevons's legend.
I've no doubt he made himself entirely charming. His manners could be as beautiful as any of the Thesigers' when he chose, and they soothed her. I think she had ceased to feel them as a reproach to Jimmy. She had given up his manners, poor dear, long ago, as a bad job. It was as if she had slaked her thirst for the unusual.
And to all these shades Jevons was acutely sensitive. They considered that Jevons's marriage was a disaster, not for the Thesigers, but for Jevons, and that his only safe and proper course was to leave the Thesigers alone. But it wasn't so easy to leave them alone when he had married into them; and to have left them would have been for Jevons a confession of failure.
Still, I wondered how it really stood with them; and whether Reggie had settled with his doubt, or whether sometimes, when you caught him looking at Jimmy, it had come over him again. The kind of virtue his brother-in-law had displayed in Flanders wouldn't help him, you see, to that particular solution. And with the Thesigers when they took after their mother things died hard.
It did counteract the effect its predecessor; and the "Journal" gave him a place in Belles-Lettres where he was safe from the legend of his own brutality. But it strained his relations with the Thesigers for the time being.
"No," she said, with that frank smile that was lovely enough to charm any one. "I neither like nor admire Lady Thesiger." Clare uttered a little cry of astonishment. "Why not?" I asked. "I should not like to prejudice you against them, Sir Edgar; but as you ask me, I will tell you. The Thesigers have but one object." "What is it?"
I had wired to them from Dunkirk to tell them that Reggie was slightly wounded but recovering, and that the four of us would be in Canterbury that evening. It wasn't my fault if Reggie, being a British officer, was taken from us at Dover, and sent to a military hospital; but I admit I ought to have wired again to the Thesigers to inform them of the fact.
He had been so happy thinking about his house and his furniture and Viola that I don't believe he'd ever thought about the Thesigers. He said: "Tell that old sinner I don't care a copper damn whether he recognizes me or not. What I can't stand and won't stand is the slur he's putting on my wife." And that is more or less what I did tell him.
Reggie had come up on the Friday for ten days, and he stayed with the General for the weekend. He said he could stay with us for the whole week if we could have him. We were out in the hall saying good-bye, and he was getting Norah's cloak for her. The hall was full of Thesigers and guests. I remember Norah saying, "We'd love to have you. But we promised Vee-Vee to divide you with her."
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