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Updated: September 17, 2025
Presently a trembling voice said in the darkness, while some soft curls of hair tickled his cheek: "I've been to Threlfall. Will Lady Tatham be very angry?" "Well, she was a bit worried," said Tatham, wondering if the occasion ought not to be improved. "She guessed you might have gone there. There's bad weather coming and she was anxious what might happen to you. Ah! there's the rain!"
She was not abashed or bewildered by the luxuries of Duddon, as Netta clearly was. Rather, she seemed to seize greedily and by a natural instinct upon all that came her way motors, pretty frocks, warm baths in luxurious bathrooms, and the attentions of Victoria's maid. Victoria believed that she had grasped the whole situation with regard to Threlfall.
It was the tenth day since the evening when Claude Faversham had been carried unconscious into Threlfall Tower, and the first one which anything like clearness of mind had returned to him. Before that there had been passing gleams and perceptions, soon lost again in the delusions of fever, or narcotic sleep.
She seemed to be in the Tower in one of its locked and shuttered rooms; to be looking at a young man stretched on a sofa a wizardlike figure in a black cloak standing near and in the doorway, Lydia entering, bringing the light on her fair hair.... Tatham had to open the gate of Threlfall Park for himself.
"A very interesting old place, built by some man with a real fine taste! As far as I can see, it will hold my collections very well." The new owner of Threlfall Tower was standing in the drawing-room with his back to the fire, alternately looking about him with an eager curiosity, and rubbing his hands in what appeared to be satisfaction. The agent surveyed him.
"Your mother did not tell me much. They were troubled about Mrs. Melrose, I think, and Undershaw was coming. The poor little girl turned very white no tears but she was clinging to your mother." Tatham's face softened, but he said nothing. The road to Threlfall presented itself, and he turned his horse toward it. "And Miss Penfold?" said Boden, quietly. "You arrived before the newspapers? Good.
The doorkeeper was a quiet man who had lost a leg in South Africa, after having been otherwise severely wounded five times in previous engagements. Mr. Bamberger, he said, could not see his friend yet. A part of the cure consisted in complete isolation from friends during the first stages of the treatment. Sir Jasper Threlfall had been to see Mr. Feist that morning. He had been twice already. Dr.
Nevertheless after these years of solitude, passed as it were in a besieged camp Threlfall and its inmates against the world this new and tardy contact with humanity, this momentary return to neighbourly, kindly ways brought with it a strange sweetness.
The first was Nash, Melrose's legal factotum through many years; the other was one of the clerks in the Pengarth office, who was popularly supposed to have made much money out of the Threlfall estate, through a long series of small peculations never discovered by his miserly master. They passed Tatham with downcast eyes and an air of suppressed excitement which did not escape him.
And they are fitting up a telephone between Threlfall and some new rooms that he has taken for estate business in Pengarth." "A telephone at Threlfall!" murmured Andover. "And Undershaw tells me that Melrose has taken the most extraordinary fancy for the young man. Everything is done for him. He may have anything he likes. And, rumour says an enormous salary!"
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