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"Ever so long," answered Mina Zabriska in a low voice, but very confidently. "Ah, he was waiting till Lady Tristram died?" Iver nodded; he thought what she suggested a very good explanation to accept. It was plausible and sensible; it equipped Harry Tristram with a decent excuse for his past silence, and a sound reason for the moment of his disclosure.
Mina Zabriska had left her terrace and gone to bed, declaring that she was still on Harry's side; but she was not with him in this fight. He returned to Cecily and stood by her. The sympathy between them kept her still; she watched, she waited. For minutes he was silent; all thought of time was gone. Now she knew that he had something great to say.
"Yes, I do," she snapped viciously as she turned toward the door. But she looked back at him before she went out. "As far as that goes," he said slowly, "I'm not sure you're wrong, Madame Zabriska. But I could never marry her." The Imp launched a prophecy, confidently, triumphantly, maliciously. "Before very long she'll be the one to say that, and you've got yourself to thank for it too! Good-by!"
If I corresponded with Mr Tristram it would be one thing; if Madame Zabriska and to be sure she has nobody to look after her; that Major is no better than any silly young man chooses to do so, it's quite another. All I say is that, so far as Blent is concerned, there's an end of Mr Tristram. Why, he hasn't got a penny piece, my dear." "So I heard," agreed Mrs Trumbler.
"I must correct Madame Zabriska," he said. "I knew it too." "What?" cried Duplay. Iver turned quick scrutinizing eyes on his friend. "You knew too? You knew what?" he demanded. "The facts we have been endeavoring to obtain from Madame Zabriska." "The facts about " "Oh, it's all in the letter," cried Mina in a quick burst of impatience. "There it is."
Window after window sprang into light. "Ah!" murmured Cecily in satisfaction; and Mina Zabriska saw the illumination from the terrace of Merrion on the hill. Cecily rose, waved her hand to Harry, and ran off into the house with a laugh.
"I suppose Madame Zabriska has been a widow some time?" she remarked. "I have never inquired," said Miss S. with an air of expecting applause for a rare discretion. "I wonder what Mr Harry will do! The Vicar says he must be terribly upset." "Oh, I never professed to understand that young man. All I know is that he's going abroad." "Abroad?" "Yes, my dear.
That was just an idea he gave of himself, and gave involuntarily in spite of taking his fair share in the amusements of the neighborhood, and holding his own well in its sports and athletics. But he was considered cold and very reserved. Had Mina Zabriska remembered this use of "reserve," perhaps she would have employed the word instead of "wariness."
"Have we enough to go upon? Suppose Disney turned round and " "Robert won't do that. Besides, we needn't pledge anything. We can just put the case." She smiled thoughtfully. "I'm still not quite sure how Mr Tristram will take it, you know." "How he'll take it? He'll jump at it, of course." "The girl or the title, George?" "Well, both together. Won't he, Madame Zabriska?"
What Janie hinted and Iver did not discard was a view which found some supporters; and where it was entertained, poor Mina Zabriska's character was gone. Miss S. herself was all but caught by the idea, and went so far as to say that she had never thought highly of Madame Zabriska, while the Major was known to be impecunious.
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