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Lidcote received the tea-cup which her cousin proffered, but showed no other disposition to obey her injunctions. For a moment she stirred her tea in silence; then she asked: "Is it your idea that I should stay quietly up here till Monday?" Miss Suffern set down her cup with a gesture so sudden that it endangered an adjacent plate of scones.
"What," almost yelled Hilary, "you mean " "That your ship is resting comfortably outside on the terrace. When little Wat here caught your message in the communication disk, we were busy organizing companies of Earthmen in the hills back of Suffern.
Gault was able to secure the dog Glenmuir Cavalier. He started for Craigswold, with the dog on the rear seat of the car. At first he kept a hand on the dog's collar, but as the collie made no attempt to escape, he soon turned around he was in the front seat and paid no more attention to him. Just outside of Suffern, he looked back to find Cavalier had disappeared.
"It isn't exactly mourning," she would say; "but it's the only stitch of black poor Julia had and of course George was only my mother's step-cousin." As she came forward Mrs. Lidcote found herself humorously wondering whether she were mourning Horace Pursh's divorce in one of his mother's old black satins. "Oh, did you mean to go down for tea?" Susy Suffern peered at her, a little fluttered.
When she had assured herself of the safety of the scones she looked up with a fluttered laugh. "Perhaps, dear, by to-morrow you'll be feeling differently. The air here, you know " "Yes, I know." Mrs. Lidcote bent forward to help herself to a scone. "Who's arriving this evening?" she asked. Miss Suffern frowned and peered. "You know my wretched head for names. Leila told me but there are so many "
I shall be glad to see Mary Giles again. It must be eighteen years," said Mrs. Lidcote steadily. "Yes," Miss Suffern gasped, precipitately refilling her cup. "The Ashton Gileses; and who else?" "Well, the Sam Fresbies. But the most important person, of course, is Mrs. Lorin Boulger." "Mrs. Boulger? Leila didn't tell me she was coming." "Didn't she? I suppose she forgot everything when she saw you.
Miss Suffern enthusiastically appended: "I do think inviting Harriet Fresbie was a stroke of genius!" "Oh, we'll be with you soon," Leila laughed. "So soon that it's really foolish to separate." But Mrs. Lidcote held out with the quiet firmness which her daughter knew it was useless to oppose.
She's to meet me at the dock, and I'll take her straight back to the hotel with me." As she developed this plan, she had the sense that Ide was still thoughtfully, even gravely, considering her. When she ceased, he remained silent a moment; then he said almost ceremoniously: "If your talk with Miss Suffern doesn't last too late, may I come and see you when it's over?
Pierson has given me an imperative order to conclude a matter of business there, and it is very important that it should be done. I should lose my position if I neglected the matter, and no one but Hasbrouck and Suffern knows that we keep the money in the house. I have always given out that I intrusted it to Hale's safe over night." "But I cannot stand it," she persisted.
Susy Suffern brought her up to my room the last evening, after dinner, when all the others were at bridge. She meant it kindly but it wasn't much use." "But what were you doing in your room in the evening after dinner?"
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