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But, in talking over old times not that I could tell her much about West Lynne, for I had left it almost as long as she had the time slipped on past the hour. When Afy found that out she hurried me off, and I had barely got outside the gate when a cab drove up, and Thorn alighted from it, and let himself in with a latch-key. That is all I know."
Carlyle, fixing his eyes upon him, so as to take in every tone of the answer and shade of countenance as he gave it. "I should think not, indeed. It was a married lady, more's the pity; young, pretty, vain and heedless, as you represent this Afy.
Afy Hallijohn was recalled, and questioned as to Richard's presence at her father's house that night. It tallied with the account given by Richard; but it had to be drawn from her. "Why did you decline to receive Richard Hare into the cottage, after appointing him to come?" "Because I chose," returned Afy. "Tell the jury why you chose."
"What was his name?" questioned Mr. Carlyle. "Thorn," said Afy. "I mean his real name. Thorn was an assumed name." "Oh, dear no," returned Afy. "Thorn was his name." Mr. Carlyle paused and looked at her. "Afy, I have reason to believe that Thorn was only an assumed name. Now, I have a motive for wishing to know his real one, and you would very much oblige me by confiding it to me. What was it?"
As for Lady Afy, he execrated the greenhornism which had made him feign a passion, and then get caught where he meant to capture. As for Sir Lucius, he wished to Heaven he would just take it into his head to repay him the fifteen thousand he had lent him at that confounded election, to say nothing of anything else. Then there was Burlington, with his old loves and his new dances.
The Duke returned satisfied, for Sir Lucius Grafton ever observed his word, to say nothing of the great interest which he surely had this time in maintaining his pledge. Our hero thought that he never should reach London. The journey seemed a day; and the effort to amuse Lady Afy, and to prevent her from suspecting, by his conduct, that anything had occurred, was most painful.
Captain Thorn stroked his moustache with an air that seemed to say he could boast of his share of such baskings: in short, as if he felt half inclined to do it. "Upon my word," he simpered, "you do me too much honor; I cannot confess to having been favored by Miss Afy." "Then she was not the the damsel you speak of, who drove you if I understand aright from the locality?" resumed Mr.
'No one is more unaffected than Lucius Grafton. I am quite happy to find you like him; for he is an old friend of mine, and I know that he has a good heart. 'I like him especially because he likes you. 'Dearest! 'He introduced me to Lady Afy. I perceive that she is very attached to her husband. 'Lady Afy is a charming woman. I know no woman so truly elegant as Lady Afy.
The day he spoke to me in the pastrycook's shop at Swainson, something came over him, in the spur of the moment, not to give his right name, so he gave the first that came into his head. He never thought to retain it, or that other people would hear of him by it." "I dare say not," laconically spoke Lawyer Ball. "Well, Miss Afy, I believe that is all for the present.
The shot followed close upon it, and he guessed some mischief had been done, though he did not suspect its extent." "Thorn told you this when?" "The same night much later." "How came you to see him?" Afy hesitated; but she was sternly told to answer the question.
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