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"You remember that evening in Verdon woods, Edward the evening before we were married?" "Remember it!" "Well. How infinitely happier are we now than then! Oh! that fear that mistrust of myself! You reproved me for my fear and mistrust then; and I must beg leave to remind you of what you then said.
De Verdon, his competitor for West-Meath, naturally entered into alliance with the Kildare Geraldine, and in the year 1294, after many lesser conflicts, they took the Red Earl and his brother William prisoners, and carried them in fetters to the Castle of Lea, in Offally.
This was part of Coleshill, and vested in the crown before the conquest, but soon after granted with that to Clinton, who gave it with a daughter to Verdon; and he, with another, to Anselm de Scheldon, who kept it till the reign of Edward the Third: it afterwards passed through several families, till the reign of Henry the Seventh, when it came into that of De Gray, Earl of Kent, whence the name; though, perhaps, the works were erected by Scheldon.
She spoke the words without thinking about them at all, and she was not looking at Arnold when she uttered them. If his face changed, she did not see it. "So he is beginning to give her flowers already," Arnold thought. Meanwhile Elsie was wondering whether he had yet seen Mrs. Verdon. The two widows had travelled down to Rushbrook on Monday, and this was Wednesday.
"It would be so dreadful," she thought, "if I were to make a fool of myself at nine-and-twenty! Can't I venture to enjoy a little friendliness without getting hot cheeks like a school-girl?" After he was gone she sat dreaming till it grew dusk, and wondering what would become of her when Arnold Wayne had married Mrs. Verdon.
Among the latest were Arnold and Mrs. Verdon a goodly pair. People smiled furtively, and exchanged meaning glances when these two arrived. Arnold's eyes sought for the person who still interested him above all others, in spite of the shock she had given him. His heart was comforted when he saw her sitting quietly under a gigantic beech by an old lady's side.
"And I hope, too, that he won't miss Harold's influence over his life. He's in a fair way to be spoilt, you see." "Mrs. Verdon really wants to do her best for him," said Elsie, with perfect sincerity. "And nurse is a very sensible woman." "But it takes a man to manage a strong boy. A woman can't do it alone." "He will help her to manage him," Elsie thought. "It is right, I know.
When Elsie released him he returned with alacrity to his adopted mother's side, and slid his hand into hers again. Yet she had found him, and all suspense and anxiety were at an end. She thanked Mrs. Verdon for her courtesy, learned that Jamie's home was in Portman Square, and then gave her own address in return, and went quietly away with her two companions. Arnold Wayne was left with Mrs.
She was not a clever woman, but long intercourse with the world had quickened her faculty for observation, and she was much given to studying Katherine. "Not commonplace," she repeated; "then, of course, you found him very interesting?" "There was not time to get interested in him," Mrs. Verdon answered. "Naturally if a man saves one's life one feels grateful.
It was that of Gneffier Verdon, Clement's brother-in-law, and Darpent was assisting to carry in a wounded man whose blood flowed so fast that it made a stream along the pavement before the door.
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