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Good Heavens! Lady Winsleigh will cry for sheer spite and vexation!" Philip laughed. "I hope not," he said. "I should think it would need immense force to draw a tear from her ladyship's cold bright eyes." "She used to like you awfully, Phil!" said Lorimer. "You were a great favorite of hers." "All men are her favorites with the exception of one her husband!" observed Errington gaily.
She went to the Brilliant, accompanied by Lady Winsleigh and her husband, Neville, the secretary, making the fourth in their box; and during the first and second scene of the performance the stage effects were so pretty and the dancing so graceful that she nearly forgot the bewildered astonishment she had at first felt at the extreme scantiness of apparel worn by the ladies of the ballet.
A quiver of agony passed over her face, she fixed her large bright eyes on Lady Winsleigh, who instinctively shrank from the solemn speechless despair of that penetrating gaze. "Who gave you this letter, Clara?" she asked calmly. "I told you before, Miss Vere herself." "Why did she give it to you?" continued Thelma in a dull, sad voice. Lady Winsleigh hesitated and stammered a little.
And with a few more vague compliments and remarks about the weather, Lady Winsleigh took her departure. Left alone, the actress threw herself back in her chair and laughed. "That woman's up to some mischief," she exclaimed sotto voce, "and so is Lennie! I wonder what's their little game? I don't care, as long as they'll keep the high-and-mighty Errington in his place. I'm tired of him!
She was exquisitely dressed, and she held herself like a queen. As for her hair I never saw such wonderful hair, there's every shade of gold in it." "Dyed!" said Lady Winsleigh, with a sarcastic little laugh. "She's been in Paris, I dare say a good coiffeur has done it for her there artistically!" This time Sir Francis's smile was a thoroughly amused one.
Briggs says that Lady Winsleigh was fond of you, Sir Philip, then, that she was fond of Sir Francis Lennox, and yet she has a husband of her own all the time! It is so very strange!" And the little maiden's perplexity appeared to border on distraction. "They would think such a woman quite mad in Norway! But what is worse than anything is that you you, Sir Philip, oh!
Two persons there were, however, man and woman, who, walking in that same rose-avenue, did not seem, from their manner, to have much to do with the fair Greek god, they were Lady Winsleigh and Sir Francis Lennox.
But when she arrived at her own door, Morris, who opened it, informed her that Lady Winsleigh was waiting in the drawing-room to see her, and had been waiting some time. Thelma hastened thither immediately, and held out her hands joyously to her friend. "I am so sorry you have had to wait, Clara!" she began. "Why did you not send word and say you were coming?
"Thank you!" said Thelma, "I do hope so too, if you wish it so much. Good-night, Lord Winsleigh!" "Let me escort you to your carriage," said her noble host, at once offering her his arm. "And allow me to follow," added Beau Lovelace, slipping his arm through Errington's, to whom he whispered, "How dare you, sir! How dare you be such a provokingly happy man in this miserable old world?"
That woman's an immense favorite she is the success of the piece. She's got more diamonds than either you or I." Thelma regarded her friend with a sort of grave wonder, but said nothing in reply. If Lady Winsleigh liked the performance and wished to remain, why then politeness demanded that Thelma should not interfere with her pleasure by taking an abrupt leave.
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