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As the attendant went away Braybrooke added: "My dear boy, if you will excuse me for saying so, are you not getting the Foreign Office habit of being older than your years? I hope you will not begin wearing horn spectacles while your sight is still unimpaired." Craven laughed and felt suddenly younger. The two dry Martinis were brought, and the talk grew a little more lively.
But suddenly there was applause and no one was looking at her. Moscovitch had walked upon the stage. "That man can act!" Miss Van Tuyn had spoken. "He gets you merely by coming on. That is acting!" And immediately she was intent on the stage. When the curtain fell Braybrooke got up resolutely and stood at the back of the box. Craven, too stood up, and they all discussed the play.
"Dick is leaving me at the Marble Arch," she said. "The reason he gives is that he is going to take a Turkish Bath in the Harrow Road. But that is a lie that even an American girl brought up in Paris is unable to swallow. What are you really going to do, Dick?" As she spoke she walked on, having Garstin on one side of her and Francis Braybrooke on the other.
Craven thanked his friend, left a card at Number 18A, and a day or two later received an invitation to go to tea with Lady Sellingworth on the following Sunday. He stayed in London on purpose to do this, although he had promised to go into the country from Saturday to Monday. Braybrooke had succeeded in rousing keen interest in him. It was not Craven's habit to be at the feet of old ladies.
He has caught the secret of evil, and when he had done with it he may quite possibly catch the secret of good." "And then," said Braybrooke, "I am sure he will paint you." It was meant to be a very charmingly turned compliment. But Miss Van Tuyn received it rather doubtfully. "I don't know that I want to wait quite so long as that," she murmured. "Besides I think I rather come in between.
Paris, perhaps, had spoiled her for the acting in London, or the play so far did not interest her. Braybrooke glanced at her rather anxiously. He did not approve of the way in which he and his guests were seated in the box, and was sure she did not like it. Craven ought to be beside her. "What do you think of it?" he murmured. "The operatic types aren't bad."
And there I received their constitution under all their hands presently; so that I am already confirmed their Treasurer, and put into a condition of striking of tallys; The method adopted is described in Hubert Hall's "Antiquities and Curiosities of the Exchequer," 1891. The following account of the use of tallies, so frequently alluded to in the Diary, was supplied by Lord Braybrooke.
Her final dismissal of the subject of young Craven's possible happiness with Beryl Van Tuyn, if circumstances should ever bring them together, had been very abrupt. She had really almost kicked it out of the conversation. But then, she had never been fond of discussing love affairs. Braybrooke had noticed that. As he considered the matter he began to feel rather uneasy.
But before he was taken upstairs the butler said he was not sure whether her ladyship was seeing anyone and must find out. He went away to do so, and returned with an affirmative answer. When Braybrooke came into the big drawing-room on the first floor he fancied that his friend was looking older, and even paler, than usual. As he took her hand he thought, "Can I be right?
It really was quite mysterious. One day Braybrooke inquired discreetly in Berkeley Square, alleging a desire to communicate with Lady Sellingworth about a charity bazaar in which he was interested; but the footman did not know where her ladyship was or when she was coming back to town. And still letters were not being forwarded.
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