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They took a seat by the side of the broad gravel walk. "Will no one rescue me?" thought Daisy. "He's bound to pass soon," thought Benham. Benham's wish was the first to be fulfilled. Before long the Premier came in sight, accompanied by Coxon. "Ah, there's your daughter," said the latter. "You were wondering where she was." Medland looked, and saw Daisy and Benham sitting side by side.
He appreciated the advantage that such an alliance would be to a man threatened with the kind of revelation which menaced Medland; it was clear to his mind that Medland had appreciated it too, and had laid a cunning trap for Dick's innocent feet.
"By Jove!" he said, "it's simply you know, Al simply fetching to see them together. He's a splendid chap not an ounce of side or nonsense about him. And she's awfully pretty. Don't you think she's awfully pretty, Al?" "I only saw her for a moment, dear." "It's too bad of Mary to go on as she does. She simply ignores Miss Medland." "Miss Medland's still very young, Dick.
The subtleties of English rank are not to be apprehended by a mere four years' visit to our shores. "We expect Sir John to go on for a couple of months or so," Kilshaw continued. "I don't think he'll stay longer." "Perhaps we shall be out by then." "Not as things stand, I'm afraid," and Kilshaw shook his head. "Now if we could get you, Medland would be out in three weeks."
Medland himself was too engrossed with larger matters to note the progress of this outlawry: when he did for a moment turn his thoughts from the campaign he was engrossed with, there was only one face in Kirton society whose countenance or aversion troubled him: and that one was sternly and irrevocably turned away.
Young man after young man sought her in vain, or, finding the pair, feared to intrude and retired in discontent, while Medland strove to draw the picture of that far-off society whose bringing-near was his goal in public life. She wondered if he talked to other women like that: and she found herself hoping that he did not.
I tell you what it is, Coxon, and you must stop me if you don't like to hear it I shall always consider Medland got your support on false pretences." Coxon did not stop him. He sat and bit his finger-nail while Kilshaw pointed out the discrepancies between what Medland had foreshadowed and what he was doing.
Puttock made a slight grimace, and Kilshaw smiled complacently. He had great hopes of Puttock, and was pleased when the latter remarked, "By the way, Kilshaw, here's a friend of mine who's anxious to know you," and he introduced his influential constituent, Mr. Benham of Shepherdstown. The three men stood talking together and saw Medland pass by.
Dick, on the look-out for a hint of suppressed suffering, saw what he looked for. She was taking it very well, and it was his duty to say something nice. Moreover, Daisy Medland was looking extremely pretty, and that fact alone, in Dick's view, justified and indeed necessitated the saying of something nice. Violet Granger was leagues away, and a touch of romance could not disquiet or hurt her.
Medland increased the downward curve of Lady Eynesford's mouth, and she was about to speak, when Dick Derosne exclaimed, "Well, you can see him now, Al. He's walking up the drive." The party and their tea-table were screened by trees, and they were able, themselves unseen, to watch Mr. Medland, as, in obedience to the Governor's summons, he walked slowly up to Government House.
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