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It was well enough to be told to hope; and Lady Kilmarny meant to be kind, but what she said made me "creep" whenever I thought of the chauffeur. She advised me not to take my meals with the maids and valets at the Majestic Palace, because a change, so sudden and Cinderella-like, after lunching in the restaurant, would cause disagreeable talk in the hotel.
We gave each other a glance, and he could not help knowing that I must be her ladyship's maid, by the way I was loaded with rugs, like a beast of burden. Of my face he could see little, as I had on a thick motor-veil with a small triangular talc window, which Lady Kilmarny had given me as a present when I bade her good-bye.
Do you mind much?" "It's the stepping in alone that costs the most," I said. "Well, I'm only too delighted if I can be of the least use. Let the car rip! I'll see to her afterward. Now I'm going to take care of you. You need it more than she does." What would Lady Kilmarny have said if she had heard my deliberate encouragement of the chauffeur, and his reckless response?
Lady Kilmarny, as a member of the League against Cruelty to Animals, had determined that nothing would induce her to throw any poor mouse to this cat, even if she heard of a mouse plying for hire; but here was I in a dreadful scrape, professing myself ready to snap at anything except Corn Plasters; and she felt bound to mention that the mousetrap was open, the cheese waiting to be nibbled.
He may be acting with my cousin's husband, who values him immensely, and wants him in the family." "Is he very rich?" "Disgustingly," said I, as I had said to Lady Kilmarny. "Yet you bolted from a good home, where you had every comfort, rather than be pestered to marry him?"
I had almost to drag the suggestion out of Lady Kilmarny, who turned red and stammered as if I were the great lady, she the poor young girl in want of a situation. It was not Corn Plasters. It was Liver Pills, the very same liver pills which had dropped into the mind of Lady Kilmarny when I hesitated to put into words the foundation of my pretendant's future.
"To England, perhaps," I answered. "In a few weeks from now I might be able to find a position there." And I went on to tell, in as few words as possible, my adventure in the railway train. "H'm!" said Lady Kilmarny. "We'll look her up in Who's Who, and see if she exists. If she's anybody, she'll be there. And Who's Who I always have with me, abroad.
"It would be better than being an advertisement for Corn Plasters," I smiled. "Then," said Lady Kilmarny, "perhaps, after all, I can help you. But no I should never dare to suggest it! The thought of a girl like you it would be too dreadful." When my father had been extravagant, he used to say gaily in self-defence that "one owed something to one's ancestors."
She looked surprised at sight of me, and I saw she didn't realize that I was the expected candidate. "Lady Kilmarny couldn't come," I began to explain, "and " "Oh!" she cut me short. "So you are the young person she is recommending as a maid." For a minute I forgot, and almost sat down. It would have been the end of me if I had!
Lady Turnour had lately quarrelled with a maid and dismissed her, Lady Kilmarny told me. Lady Kilmarny believed that this was the honeymoon of the newly married pair, and that, after having paused on the wing at Cannes, for a little billing and cooing, they intended to pursue their travels in France for some weeks, before returning to settle down in England.
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