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Updated: June 29, 2025
On the way, he told his companion his mission and the causes which had led to it. Charles Westmacott knew little enough of City life and the ways of business, but at least he had more experience in both than the Admiral, and he made up his mind not to leave him until the matter was settled.
If you understood all, you would see that there is no harm in it." "No harm, miss! Who is the best judge of that?" "Mrs. Westmacott," suggested Ida, slyly. The Doctor sprang from his chair. "Confound Mrs. Westmacott!" he cried, striking frenziedly into the air with his hands. "Am I to hear of nothing but this woman? Is she to confront me at every turn? I will endure it no longer."
Nothing is settled yet, but you will find that all will come right." Clara went upstairs sad at heart, for she was sure now that what she had feared was indeed about to come to pass, and that her father was going to take Mrs. Westmacott to be his wife.
Westmacott had been left sleeping peacefully with a small chloral draught to steady her nerves and a handkerchief soaked in arnica bound round her head. It was with some surprise, therefore, that the Admiral received a note from her about ten o'clock, asking him to be good enough to step in to her.
Westmacott raised his hat and strode away to the westward, while the Admiral, after a hurried lunch, bent his steps towards the east. It was a long walk, but the old seaman swung along at a rousing pace, leaving street after street behind him.
Harold will do what you ask him, especially as you have told him the reason why, and my Charles will do it without even wanting to know the reason. Now you know what Mrs. Westmacott thinks about the reserve of young ladies. Mere prudery, affectation, and a relic of the dark ages of the Zenana. Those were her words, were they not?" "What then?" "Well, now we must put it in practice.
"You quite frightened me, dear," said she. "You can't think how solemn you look. What is it, then?" "I believe that papa intends to ask Mrs. Westmacott to marry him." Ida burst out laughing. "What can have put such a notion into your head, Clara?" "It is only too true, Ida. I suspected it before, and he himself almost told me as much with his own lips to-night.
For the rest, he came and went, supremely calm, as if he were, and knew himself to be, most welcome at Lupton House. Thrice in the course of that week of waiting he rode over from Zoyland Chase to pay his duty to Mistress Westmacott, and Ruth was persuaded on each occasion by her aunt and cousin to receive him. Indeed, how could she well refuse? His manner was ever all that could be desired.
Wentworth nodded without replying. His eye lighted on Blake who had been seemingly forgotten in the confusion and on Richard. A kindliness for the man who met his end so unflinchingly, a respect for so worthy an emeny, actuated the red-faced captain. "You had better take yourself off, Sir Rowland," said he. "And you, Mr. Westmacott you can wait in the passage with my men."
She had a good deal to say for herself on that also. In fact, mother, I have taken a platform ticket for her meeting." But this was not to be the only eventful conversation which Mrs. Westmacott held that day, nor was the Admiral the only person in the Wilderness who was destined to find his opinions considerably changed.
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