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"I told him he saw me crying and asked me why. It was at the Vicarage Bazaar I was sitting in a summer-house and Lady Martin and Mrs. Madgwick were outside, and they began to talk about me and they said all those horrible things " "Toni, were you obliged to listen? Couldn't you have got away!" "No." She lifted her clear eyes to his and he repented his question.
When Toni had arisen from her bed of pain she found the place which she and her husband had been seeking for months with surprising rapidity. The "Hotel Germania," the most reputable hotel in the county-seat itself was for rent. Its owner had recently died. It was palatial compared to her father's inn.
"Well, it's only my tennis-frock," said Toni, her first involuntary qualms driven away by the friendly sound in Owen's voice. "We'll go back and finish now. You'll come, Owen? I'll tell Maggie to bring back the food." "No, don't bother." He spoke quietly. "I'll go and brush off some of the London dust while you and your friends finish your supper. I'll have a bite later on. Don't worry about me."
"Why not?" in his despair the young man pressed still nearer, and again Jock uttered a warning growl. "I know you are married, but still you're not happy your husband isn't, either, by what I hear. You'd be wronging nobody you've no children to consider" in some ways Mr. Dowson was as primitive as Toni "if you had, it would be different, but you've only yourself to think about.
Indeed she was thrilling with pleasure at the idea of entertaining her cousin in her new home. "I've lots to see to. What a pity Mrs. Blades is ill to-day." "Yes, her usual bronchitis, I suppose. She'll be all right in a day or two." Owen was hunting for a paper as he spoke. "Confound it, where is that manuscript, Toni? You know the one that article on Alfred Noyes." "It's here."
Rose knows all the time that he ought not to have married you just to get even with that horrid Saxonby woman, and anyhow you're not the least bit in the world suited to one another." Toni was very pale. "You don't think so?" "I'm sure of it." Eva threw away the cigarette she held and sat upright.
Toni is an out-and-out good sort, as straight as a die, and a merry, light-hearted little thing into the bargain; but she's bound to turn out a disappointment to her husband all the same." "I don't see why," said Herrick after a moment's pause. "Lots of clever men marry feather-headed women and manage to get along all right." "Yes, but Owen's not that sort.
Toni was obliged to rouse herself from her own dejection to look after the children, who were both delicate and spoilt; but luckily they took an instant fancy to the travelling companion so strangely provided, and behaved with commendable good-temper throughout. When at length the train ran into the railway station at Naples, Toni suddenly found herself faced with another problem.
One glance was enough. "Good gracious, Fan! Visitors! What a bore!" "Will they come in? Won't your man say you're out?" gasped Fanny, hastily dropping the bit of cake she held and pinning up a roll of hair which had come down in the game. "No they saw us," said Toni wildly. "I never said I wasn't at home and anyway they'd hear us laughing!"
He felt angry at being vanquished and the shame of weakness yet, allied to these sensations, was the instinctive gratitude which one experiences upon being freed from an unwise step by a violent hand which mistreats and saves. "You are to remain, Toni!" he said in a dull voice. "There is nothing to say.
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