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Updated: May 7, 2025
I regret exceedingly I was unable to come over to Tryland to-day, but hope to do so before you leave. I trust you are well, and did not catch cold on the drive. Yours, very truly, This is what I get this morning! Pig! Well, I sha'n't be in if he does come. The letters come early here, as everywhere, but in a bag which only Mr.
His hands are a nice shape but so are Mr. Carruthers's; they both look very much like gentlemen. Before we had finished, a note was brought in to me. It was from Lady Katherine Montgomerie. She was too sorry, she said, to hear of my lonely position, and she was writing to ask if I would not come over and spend a fortnight with them at Tryland Court.
I do not much care to look back to the rest of my stay at Tryland. It is an unpleasant memory. That next day after I last wrote, it poured with rain, and every one came down cross to breakfast. The whole party appeared, except Lady Verningham, and breakfast was just as stiff and boring as dinner. I happened to be seated when Lord Robert came in, and Malcolm was in the place beside me.
I exclaimed, moving off the bed. "I would as soon die as spend the rest of my life here at Tryland." "He will be fabulously rich one day, you know, and you could get round père Montgomerie in a trice, and revolutionize the whole place. You had better think of it." "I won't," I said, and I felt my eyes sparkle. She put up her hands as if to ward off an evil spirit, and she laughed again.
"Lady Verningham kindly asked me to spend a few days with her when we left Tryland," I said, demurely. "Oh, you are staying here! Well, I was over at Tryland the day before yesterday an elaborate invitation from Lady Katherine to 'dine and sleep quietly, which I only accepted as I thought I should see you." "How good of you," I said, sweetly.
I want to prevent any other man from looking at you do you hear me, Evangeline?" "Yes, I hear," I said; "but it does not have any effect on me. You would be awful as a husband. Oh, I know all about them!" and I looked up. "I saw several sorts at Tryland, and Lady Verningham has told me of the rest, and I know you would be no earthly good in that rôle!"
In fact, I was as cool as I could be without being actually rude, but all the time there was a flat, heavy feeling round my heart. He looked so cross and reproachful, and I did not like him to think me capricious. We did not see them again until tea the sportsmen, I mean. But tea at Tryland is not a friendly time; it is just as stiff as other meals.
There they were, sitting round the tea-table just as at Tryland Kirstie and Jean embroidering and knitting, and the other two reading new catalogues of books for their work. Lady Ver began to tease them. She asked them all sorts of questions about their new frocks, and suggested they had better go to Paris once in a way. Lady Katherine was like ice.
I told her all about you when I came from Branches, and how I had fallen deeply in love with you at first sight, and that she must help me to see you at Tryland; and she did, and then I thought you had grown to dislike me, so when I came back she guessed I was unhappy about something, and this is her first step to find out how she can do me a good turn. Oh, she is a dear!"
I did not, of course, tell him of her bargain with me over him, but he probably guessed that, because before we got into the hansom even, he had begun to put me through a searching cross-examination as to the reasons for my behavior at Tryland, and Park Street, and the opera. I felt like a child with a strong man, and every moment more idiotically happy and in love with him.
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