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He said, 'Throw your handkerchief to whichever of us you love. And they stood side by side like this" he ranged himself by Austin's side "opposite the girl." "And she threw the handkerchief!" cried Viviette. "Throw yours!" said Dick. He looked at her with fierce intensity beneath rugged brows; Austin with laughing challenge.
"It is," said Viviette. "But you needn't put on such a glum face when I'm here especially to comfort you. If you're not glad to see me I'll go back to Austin. He's much more amusing than you." "I suppose he is. Yes, go back to him. I'm a fool. I'm nobody. No, don't, Viviette; forgive me," he cried, catching her as she turned away somewhat haughtily.
'Since you beg me to, since there is no alternative between my going and a long postponement, she said, as they stood in the dark porch of Welland House before parting, 'since I am to go first, and seem to be the pioneer in this adventure, promise me, Swithin, promise your Viviette, that in years to come, when perhaps you may not love me so warmly as you do now 'That will never be.
I can't stand it. But yet as I've told you all along, I'm tied hand and foot." "And so you're very miserable, Dick." "How can I help it?" Viviette edged a little away from him, and said, rather resentfully: "I don't call that polite, seeing that I have come back to live with you." He turned on her with some fierceness. "Don't you see that your being here makes my life all the more impossible?
Whereupon she resumed her work, and for a few moments the click of thimble and needle alone broke the summer stillness. Viviette lay idly on a long garden chair admiring the fit of a pair of dainty tan shoes, which she twiddled with graceful twists of the ankles some five feet from her nose. At Mrs.
"I suppose he'll be coming over to-day," said Viviette. "Why do you encourage him?" asked Katherine. "I don't," Viviette retorted. "I snub him unmercifully. If I am a coquette it's with real men, not with the by-product of a chemical experiment." Katherine dropped her work and her underlip, and turned reproachful blue eyes on the girl. "Viviette!" "Oh, she's shocked! Saint Nitouche is shocked!"
"I expected you to come over yesterday," she said. "No, did you really?" he exclaimed, a flush rising to his pale cheeks. "If I had thought that I should have come." "You've made up for it by arriving early to-day, at any rate," said Viviette. "And I'm making up for it further by coming to dinner to-night. Dick asked me," he added, seeing the polite questioning in her eyes.
'The poor gentleman's memory is a bit topsy-turvy, whispered the latter. 'He had got it in his mind that 'twere a funeral, and I found him wandering about the cemetery a-looking for us. However, all's well as ends well. And the clerk wiped his forehead again. 'How ill-omened! murmured Viviette.
"Of what?" Austin asked. "Of Dick's attitude. What has he got to be miserable about? Tell me." "But I'm not miserable, my dear Viviette," said poor Dick, vainly forcing a smile. "I'm really quite happy." Her woman's intuition rejected the protest with contumely. All the afternoon he had been mad with jealousy of Austin. An hour ago he had whirled her out of her senses in savage passion.
His fortune is left him on condition that he forms no legal tie. O will he will he, come again? 'Never, if that's the position of affairs, said Louis firmly, after a pause. 'What then shall I do? said Viviette. Louis escaped the formidable difficulty of replying by pretending to continue his Havannah; and she, bowed down to dust by what she had revealed, crept from him into the house.
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