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"She's well, she's easily caught by an idea, and rather romantic, and really, dear, we ought to be careful." "I can't believe it. If it's true, Medland has treated me very badly." "What does he care?" asked Lady Eynesford. "How I wish she would go away! Nothing I say seems to make any impression on her." "Perhaps Medland has noticed nothing, even if you're right about Alicia."
The Governor handed his, and she wiped the clammy moisture from the forehead and hands. Medland opened his eyes. "The horse kicked me in the side," he murmured faintly, "here, on the right low down. I'm in pain." Then he saw Dick Derosne. "Mr. Derosne!" he called faintly, and Dick knelt down to listen. "Tell your sister I believe." "What?" asked Dick in sheer surprise.
What if Puttock raised the Righteous on him?" "Oh, then I should stand by Medland," said the Chief Justice decisively. "And young Coxon's to be Attorney-General. He's safe enough." "A man who thinks only about himself is generally safe," remarked Sir Robert dryly; and he added, with a smile, "That's why lawyers are such a valuable class." The Chief Justice laughed, and took his revenge by asking,
"Whenever, Daisy," said Medland, "a thing is pleasant, one must not, in this world, have much of it. Is that the gospel, Lady Perry?" "You'll make young Mr. Derosne too conceited, my dear," whispered Lady Perry, very kindly; but she favoured Dick, who knew well that he was a sinner, with a severe glance.
The result was the defeat of the Government, the resignation of Sir Robert, and the inevitability of Mr. Medland.
Fortune put him at a disadvantage in that his partner was far away, while Daisy stood triumphant by the side of hers and watched him. "Upon my honour," he exclaimed, hitting viciously at a flower, "I believe she was humbugging me all the time!" And from that day to this he thinks Miss Medland a flirt, and is very glad, for that among other weighty reasons, that he had nothing more to do with her.
Yet she could not help it; she could not hear a creature like that abuse or condemn a man like Medland though all that he had said she had said, and more, to Medland himself. She was too miserable to think; she lay with closed eyes and parted lips, breathing quickly, and restlessly moving her limbs in that strange physical discomfort which great unhappiness brings with it.
Alicia agreed, and the next instant she found herself practically alone with Medland; for Daisy ran off to pick a wild-flower that caught her eye in the wood, and Norburn followed her. Not knowing whether to be glad or sorry, she made no effort to escape, and was silent while Medland began to speak of his prospects in that evening's division.
Coxon, with touching fidelity. "I feel bound to state," said Mr. We cannot agree to give way on either point." "And you, Norburn?" asked Medland, turning to his devoted follower, and smiling a kindly smile. Norburn was about to speak, when Puttock broke in,
"Not not Alicia, with one man? Worse and " "Yes." "Mr. Coxon, then, I hope? At least he's safe." "No." "Who then?" "I don't know why you should ask " "Alicia! Was it ?" exclaimed Eleanor, with a gesture towards where she had found her friend. "Mr. Medland? Yes," answered Alicia. And, in her effort to exclude timidity, she infused into her voice a note of defiance.
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