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But she answered, quite gravely, "I should like to do what I can but I'm afraid there is nothing that I can do, especially" with a sudden flush "if your friends the people who come to your house are men like Mr. Strangways." Wyvis looked at her sideways, with a curious look upon his face. "You object to Mr. Strangways?" "He is a man whom most people object to." "Well if I give up Mr.
"I'm not going to put up with it if he is," was her visitor's sullen reply. "I've borne enough from him in my day, I can tell you. So I've come for the boy. I'm going to have him back; and when I've got him I've no doubt but what I can make Wyvis do what I choose. I hear he's fond of the boy." "But what what do you want him to do?" said Janetta, startled out of her reserve.
Mary Wyvis was lured into confiding one or two of her little secrets to Lady Caroline; and when she left Helmsley Court to marry John Wyvis, that young lady took so much interest in the affair that she attended the wedding and gave the bride a wedding-present.
"Therefore one that I can practice, you mean? Do you always keep your word when you give it?" "I try to." "I wish I could get you to give your word to do one thing." "What is that?" Wyvis spoke slowly. "You see how unfit I am to bring up a child I acknowledge the unfitness and yet to send him away from us would almost break my mother's heart you see that." "Yes."
"I wish I had had the introduction earlier," he said, in a much pleasanter tone. Janetta could not exactly echo the sentiment, and therefore maintained a discreet silence. "You must have thought me a great brute," said Wyvis, with some sensitiveness in his tone. "Oh, no: I quite saw how difficult it was for you to understand who I was, and how it had all come about." "You saw a great deal, then."
If you do not object, I would rather Giacomo undertook the task." "After such an account of the animal's conduct, perhaps the conte will not care to see him. It is true enough," turning to me as she spoke, "Wyvis has taken a great dislike to Signor Ferrari and yet he is a good-natured dog, and plays with my little girl all day if she goes to him. Do you feel inclined to see him? Yes?"
And Janetta, taking her courage in both hands, so to speak, answered courageously: "May I speak frankly to you, Juliet?" For Mrs. Wyvis Brand had insisted that Janetta should always call her by her Christian name. "Of course you may. What is it?" "It is about Mrs. Brand. You must have known that for some time she had been very weak and feeble. Her mind was giving way.
The object that called forth this remark was a small morocco box, loosely wrapped in tissue-paper. Wyvis took it out of his mother's hand, opened it, and stood silently gazing at its contents.
If you were acting openly it would be a different thing! Don't be angry with me for wanting to do right!" "I am not at all angry," said Margaret, with stateliness. "I am very disappointed, that is all. I do not see that I am deceiving anybody by sending a message to Wyvis. But I will not ask you again." "If only I could!" sighed Janetta, in deep distress and confusion of mind.
A moment later the boy himself came leaping down the narrow woodland path towards her with a noisy greeting; and then to Janetta's vexation and dismay instead of nurse or grandmother, there emerged from among the trees the figure of the child's father, Wyvis Brand.
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