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Updated: June 16, 2025
TWICE Father Benwell called at Derwent's Hotel, and twice he was informed that no news had been received there of Mr. Winterfield. At the third attempt, his constancy was rewarded. Mr. Winterfield had written, and was expected to arrive at the hotel by five o'clock. It was then half-past four. Father Benwell decided to await the return of his friend.
I never expected any of my aunt's property, and knew all along that it was to go to Captain Aylmer, who, indeed, was Mrs Winterfield's heir naturally. Mrs Winterfield was not really my aunt, and I had no claim on her. 'But everybody understood that she was to provide for you.
He turned on me sharply. "I don't know. Do you?" I ventured on a courteous remonstrance. "My dear sir! if you can't find another reason, how can I? It must have been a sudden antipathy, as you say. Such things do happen between strangers. I suppose I am right in assuming that Mrs. Romayne and Mr. Winterfield are strangers?"
Nor could she think of anything else to say, so much was she agitated. 'What makes you suppose that Mr Belton would be so liberal? asked Mrs Winterfield. 'I don't know. I can't say. He is the nearest relation I shall have; and of all the people I ever knew he is the best, and the most generous, and the least selfish.
Under any other circumstances, I should have introduced him. You are not well enough to see strangers today." She was too determined to prevent Winterfield from ever entering the house again to shrink from the meeting. "I am not so ill as you think, Lewis," she said, bravely. "When you go to your new friend, I will go with you. I am a little tired that's all." Romayne looked at her anxiously.
What more ought I to know? 'If you really do know all that, you know a great deal, Mrs Winterfield had replied. 'Do you know anything against her, aunt? Clara asked, after a pause. There was another pause before Mrs Winterfield answered. 'No, my dear; I cannot say that I do. But I think that young ladies, before they make intimate friendships, should be very sure of their friends.
'I was speaking to him about you yesterday, Mrs Winterfield said at last. 'That would not interest him very much. 'Why not? Do you suppose he is not interested in those I love? Indeed, it did interest him; and he told me what I did not know before, and what you ought to have told me. Clara now blushed, she knew not why, and became agitated.
On this occasion her nephew and niece reached her together; the prim boy, with the white cotton gloves and the low four-wheeled carriage, having been sent down to meet Clara. For Mrs Winterfield was a lady who thought it unbecoming that her niece though only an adopted niece should come to her door in an omnibus.
Captain Aylmer declared that he had determined to ask her to be his wife before he had made any promise to Mrs Winterfield. If this were in truth so, then the very ground on which she had separated herself from him would be removed. Why should she hesitate in acknowledging to herself that she loved the man and believed him to be true?
Romayne withdrew, to meet her at the door too hurriedly to notice Winterfield standing, in the corner to which he had retreated, like a man petrified. Stella had got out of the carriage when her husband reached the porch. She ascended the few steps that led to the hall as slowly and painfully as if she had been an infirm old woman.
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