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We shall be very kind to him, we shall help him, hope and pray for him, but we shall be at the end," said Mrs. Brook, "just where we are now. Dear Van will have done his best, and we shall have done ours. Mr. Longdon will have done his poor Nanda even will have done hers. But it will all have been in vain. However," Mrs. Brook continued to expound, "she'll probably have the money. Mr.
Longdon, "he would tell you a good deal more than you'll care to know. She IS in a boat but she's an experienced mariner. Basta, as she would say. Do you know Mitchy?" Mrs. Brook suddenly asked. "Oh yes, he knows Mitchy" Vanderbank had approached again. "Then make HIM tell him" she put it before the young man as a charming turn for them all. "Mitchy CAN be refined when he tries."
Longdon had turned away from the table on this, and the eyes of his companion, who after an instant had caught his meaning, watched him move along the room and approach another part of the divan. The consequence of the passage was that Vanderbank's only rejoinder was presently to say: "I can't tell you how long I've imagined have asked myself.
"Oh I require" Vanderbank had recovered his pleasant humour "more than to-night!" Mr. Longdon went off to the smaller table that still offered to view two bedroom candles. "You must take of course the time you need. I won't trouble you I won't hurry you. I'm going to bed."
We're all in the troupe now, I suppose," she smiled, "and we must travel with the show. But when you say we're different," she added, "think, after all, of mamma." Mr. Longdon stared. "It's from her you ARE different." "Ah but she had an awfully fine mind. We're not cleverer than she." His conscious honest eyes looked away an instant.
"Isn't she nice to me," the Duchess asked of Mr. Longdon, "when I was in the very act of praising her to the skies?" Their interlocutor's reply was not too rapid to anticipate Mrs. Brook herself. "My dear Jane, that only proves his having reached some extravagance in the other sense that you had in mere decency to match.
"I can carry my burden and shall do so to the end; but we must each remember that we shall fall to pieces if we don't manage to keep hold of some little idea of responsibility. I positively can't arrange without knowing when it is you go to him." "To Mr. Longdon? Oh whenever I like," Nanda replied very gently and simply. "And when shall you be so good as to like?"
This arrangement, however, constituted for her, in her own corner, as soon as she had made it, the ground of an appeal. "Will he hate me any worse for doing that?" Vanderbank glanced at the others. "Will Cashmore, do you mean?" "Dear no I don't care whom HE hates. But with Mr. Longdon I want to avoid mistakes." "Then don't try quite so hard!" Vanderbank laughed.
When is the next?" "You've plenty of time the fifteenth of June." "I'm only too sorry to wait." Laying down the object he had been examining Mr. Longdon took another turn about the room, and his manner was such an appeal to his host to accept his restlessness that as he circulated the latter watched him with encouragement.
Vanderbank's plea for his morning had been a pile of letters to work off, and Mitchy then coming down, as he announced from the first, ready for anything had gone to church with Mr. Longdon and Nanda in the finest spirit of curiosity.
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