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"Now, then," answered the minister, "it is time there was a stop put to this talk. Speak here, before the living and the dead, the evil words you have said in the ears of so many. What have you to say against Liot Borson?" "Look at him!" she cried. "He dares to hold in his hands the Holy Word, and I vow those hands of his are red with the blood of the man he murdered I mean of Bele Trenby."
"You'll come back with me now to-night to Trenby." She made a quick gesture of negation. "No, no, I can't I couldn't come now!" His grip of her tightened. "Now!" he repeated in a voice of steel. "And I'll marry you by special licence within a week. I'll not risk losing you again." Nan shuddered in his arms.
With Peter once more at hand, she felt sure he would be able to charm Nan's bitterness away and even prevent her, in some magical way of his own, from committing such a rash blunder as marriage with Trenby could not fail to be. She had been feeling rather disturbed about Nan ever since they had come to Mallow.
He skirted the quicksand hastily, and turned the conversation to a subject where be felt himself on sure ground. "I've been exercising hounds to-day." Trenby was Master of the Trevithick Foxhounds, and had the reputation of being one of the finest huntsmen in the county, and his heart and his pluck and a great deal of his money went to the preserving of it.
Then if Penelope remained obdurate, to-morrow she would tell Trenby frankly that she had no love, but only liking, to give him, and she would insist upon his facing the fact that there had been someone else in her life who had first claim upon her heart. That would be her other chance.
Trenby was not given to psychological analysis, but in a blind, bewildered fashion he felt that that thing of wood and ivory and stretched strings represented in concrete form everything that stood betwixt himself and Nan. "Have I nothing else no one else" significantly "to be jealous of?" he demanded. "Answer me!"
"I'll come over and let you know the report," answered Sandy. "I'm going back to Trenby now, to see if I can do any errands or odd jobs for them. A man's a useful thing to have about the place at a time like this." Kitty nodded soberly. "Quite right, Sandy. And if there's anything we can any of us do to help, 'phone down at once."
Lady Gertrude was perfectly composed, and Nan felt an inward conviction that the news of Roger's engagement had not met with her approval. Perhaps she resented the idea of relinquishing the reins of government at Trenby Hall in favour of a daughter-in-law.
"I can't tell you anything now," she said rather breathlessly. "I did try a little while ago, and you wouldn't listen. You you must give me a few days you must! If you don't, I'll say 'no' now at once!" her voice rising excitedly. She was overwrought, strung up to such a pitch that she hardly knew what she was saying. She had been through a good deal in the last hour or two and Trenby realised it.
That imperious temper of his was not difficult to rouse, as she had discovered on more than one occasion since she had come to Trenby Hall, and she felt intensely annoyed with Isobel, who was apparently unable to see that her ill-timed observations were goading the pride of both Roger and his mother.
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