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Never yet did a child stop crying for being told its pain was nought and would soon be gone. Yet this prescription had been Lady Eynesford's although she was no philosopher, to her knowledge for Alicia, and it had left the patient protesting that she felt no pain at all, and yet feeling it all the more. "What do you accuse me of? Why do you speak to me?" she had burst out.
He glanced up at the galleries: there too was the ubiquitous sheet; the Chief Justice and the President of the Legislative Council were cheek by jowl over it, and it fell lightly from Lady Eynesford's slim fingers, to be caught at eagerly by Eleanor Scaife.
A little indignant at the idea of being "married off" in this fashion, she did not feel it incumbent on her to open Lady Eynesford's eyes. As for Alicia Alicia laughed, and thought that young men were much the same all the world over.
Poor old Medland!" "Stop!" he shouted; "stop!" and, taking advantage of the momentary pause, he made his way to the Governor. "Let me speak to them, sir," he said; "I think I can bring them to reason." But Lord Eynesford's spirit was roused. "I must request you to leave the matter to me, Mr. Medland," he answered stiffly.
Lady Eynesford shut her lips close and made no answer. "What harm can they do her?" pursued the Governor. "Daisy's a nice girl, and Medland well, the worst he can do is to make her a Radical, and it doesn't matter two straws what she is." Lady Eynesford's foot tapped on the floor. "I suppose you'll laugh at me," she said.
He shook his head in indulgent disapproval, and said to Alicia, "Come, Al, we'll go and speak to them," and before Lady Eynesford could declare Alicia's company unnecessary, the pair had turned their horses' heads and were on the way to join the Medlands. Lady Eynesford's eyes followed them.
"You'd better get a bit further off before you talk like that, young man," growled a fierce-looking little fellow. "Let the gentleman alone, Tim," said Big Todd. "He's a flag o' truce." "Then you won't come?" asked the Captain. "Declined with thanks, sir," bowed Big Todd. Heseltine rode back and delivered the reply. An angry flush crossed Lord Eynesford's face.
The Governor agreed heartily with the measures introduced by Sir Robert Perry's ministry, and his relations with the members of the government, and especially with its chief, had been based on reciprocal liking and respect: they were most of them gentlemen and all of them respectable men, and, what was hardly less important, their wives and families had afforded no excuse for the exercise of Lady Eynesford's somewhat fastidious nicety as to manners, or her distinctly rigid scrutiny into morals.
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