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"Hadn't you better come in, Miss Britta?" said the butler respectfully, he had a great regard for her ladyship's little maid. Britta, recalled to herself, started, turned, and re-entered the hall. "There will be many fine folks there to-night, I suppose?" she asked. The butler rubbed his nose perplexedly. "Fine folks at Winsleigh House? Well, as far as clothes go, I dare say there will.
"End it then!" she muttered in a choked voice. "You can do as you like, you can divorce me." "Yes," said Lord Winsleigh musingly. "I can divorce you! There will be no defense possible, as you know. If witnesses are needed, they are to be had in the persons of our own domestics. The co-respondent in the case will not refute the charge against him, and I, the plaintiff, must win my just cause.
"It is a great pleasure for me to see you to-night, Lady Errington I realize how very much my friend deserves to be congratulated on his marriage!" Thelma smiles. This little speech pleases her, but she does not accept the compliment implied to herself. "You are very kind, Lord Winsleigh" she answers; "I am glad indeed that you like Philip.
Lady Winsleigh declared she must have some rest, or she would be quite unequal to the gaieties of the approaching evening, and Thelma herself was not sorry to escape for a little from her duties as hostess, so the two remained together for some time in earnest conversations and Lady Winsleigh then and there confided to Thelma what she had heard reported concerning Sir Philip's intimate acquaintance with the burlesque actress, Violet Vere.
I can't get on with them at all!" "Then you don't like him?" questioned Lady Winsleigh in rather a disappointed tone. "No, I don't!" said the Vere candidly. "He's not my sort. But, Lord bless you! I know how he's getting talked about because he comes here and serve him right too! He shouldn't meddle with my business."
I will not believe that you would so deliberately condemn to death a man who has loved, and who loves you still so faithfully, and who, without you, is utterly weary of life and broken-hearted! Think once more and let my words carry more weight with you!" This was all, but more than enough! "I wonder what he means," thought Lady Winsleigh.
The "Humming-Bird" was triumphant, and when her song was concluded she executed a startling pas-seul full of quaint and astonishing surprises, reaching her superbest climax, when she backed off the stage on one portly leg, kicking the other in regular time to the orchestra. Lady Winsleigh laughed, and leaning towards Thelma, who still sat in her retired corner, said with a show of kindness
"He is a very light-hearted boy! But once he would tell me very dreadful things about the world how it was not at all worth living in but I do think he must have been lonely. For he is very pleased with everything now, and finds no fault at all!" "I can quite understand that!" and Lord Winsleigh smiles, though that shadow of pain still rests on his brow. Mrs.
"And they've heard all sorts of wicked things Lady Winsleigh was always talking to Sir Francis Lennox about the Froeken, and now they've made her believe you do not care for her any more they've been trying to make her believe everything bad of you for ever so many months " she paused, terrified at Sir Philip's increasing pallor.
And he is pleased as a child at a pantomime the Winsleigh "at home" is a show that amuses him, and he makes sundry remarks on "'im" and "'er" in a meditative sotto voce.
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