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Mr Broune had sent her son away, had forbidden her to write any more novels and had been refused when he had asked her to marry him! The next day he came to her as usual, and found her still very wretched. 'I shall give up this house, she said. 'I can't afford to keep it; and in truth I shall not want it. I don't in the least know where to go, but I don't think that it much signifies.
At that last meeting Lady Carbury had been very soft, very handsome, and very winning; Mr Broune had given the order with good will, and it had been obeyed in the same feeling. Therefore, though the crushing had been very real, there had also been some elation; and as a net result, Lady Carbury was disposed to think that her literary career might yet be a success.
'I wonder what you expect, Hetta, when you talk of London people? Why should not London people be as kind as other people? I think Mr Broune is as obliging a man as any one I know. But if I like anybody, you always make little of him. The only person you seem to think well of is Mr Montague. 'Mamma, that is unfair and unkind.
I fear that I shall not be able to keep on this house. And they tell me, your cousin and Mr Broune, that it is my duty to take Felix out of London probably abroad. 'Of course I shall go with you. 'It may be so at first; but, perhaps, even that may not be necessary. Why should you? What pleasure could you have in it? Think what my life must be with Felix in some French or German town!
Mr Broune thought that he was very well out of the danger, and resolved that Lady Carbury should never want anything that his friendship could do for her. On Friday, the 21st June, the Board of the South Central Pacific and Mexican Railway sat in its own room behind the Exchange, as was the Board's custom every Friday.
Her sympathies as to the election of course were with Mr Melmotte. She believed in him thoroughly. She still thought that his nod might be the means of making Felix, or if not his nod, then his money without the nod. 'I suppose he is very rich, she said, speaking to Mr Broune respecting Mr Alf. 'I dare say he has put by something.
'I wonder what the old boy means to say to me about it. Then there was heard the clear tingle of a little silver bell, and Miles told Lord Nidderdale that his time had come. Mr Broune had of late been very serviceable to Mr Melmotte, and Melmotte was correspondingly gracious. But Mr Broune cut him short.
'It was over 70 in the city to-day. I call that very hot for June. 'Very hot indeed, said Mr Broune again. Then the conversation was over. Mr Broune sidled away, and Mr Melmotte was left standing in the middle of the room. Lady Carbury told herself at the moment that Rome was not built in a day. She would have been better satisfied certainly if she could have laid a few more bricks on this day.
'What is it all about? she asked, as soon as her friend was seated. There had been no time for him to explain anything at Madame Melmotte's reception, and Lady Carbury had as yet failed in learning any certain news of what was going on. 'I don't know what to make of it, said Mr Broune.
It was on that afternoon, after her disagreement with her daughter, that Marie Melmotte came to her. And, on the same evening, closeted with Mr Broune in her back room, she told him of both occurrences. 'If the girl has got the money , she began, regretting her son's obstinacy. 'I don't believe a bit of it, said Broune. 'From all that I can hear, I don't think that there is any money.
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