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But, as he must go somewhere, and as his intimacy with Lady Demolines was, he thought, sufficient to justify almost anything, he would go to Bayswater.
At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 1st of March, the day following that on which Miss Demolines had written her note, the easel was put up and the canvas was placed on it in Mrs Broughton's room. Mrs Broughton and Clara were both there, and when they had seen the outlines as far as it had been drawn, they proceeded to make arrangements for their future operations.
He got into a cab, and bid the cabman drive hard, and lighting a cigar, began to inquire of himself whether it was well for him to hurry away from the presence of Lily Dale to that of Madalina Demolines. He felt that he was half-ashamed of what he was doing.
"If you take the daughter, I'll take the mother, and see if I can't do you out of a mine or two. Good-night, old fellow. I'm only joking about old Dobbs. I'll go and dine there again to-morrow, if you like." Miss Madalina Demolines "I don't think you care two straws about her," Conway Dalrymple said to his friend John Eames, two days after the dinner-party at Mrs Dobbs Broughton's.
It was written like a telegraph message, and was about as long. It was the kind of thing Miss Demolines liked, Johnny thought; and there could be no reason why he should not gratify her. It was her favourite game. Some people like whist, some like croquet, and some like intrigue. Madalina probably would have called it romance, because by nature she was romantic.
"They are a rummy couple," said Johnny. "I suppose it's all right," said the policeman, taking the money. And then John walked off home by himself, turning in his mind all the circumstances of his connection with Miss Demolines.
But the handsome gentleman had only been mentioned once in the course of his acquaintance with Miss Demolines, whereas Maria Clutterbuck had come up so often! "Upon my word I must wish you good-by," he said. "It is going on for eleven o'clock, and I have to start to-morrow at seven." "What difference does that make?" "A fellow wants to get a little sleep, you know."
There was a time, Conway, when I thought you had given your heart to Madalina Demolines." "Heaven forbid!" "And I grieved, because I thought that she was not worthy of you." "There was never anything in that, Mrs Broughton." "She thought that there was. At any rate, she said so. I know that for certain. She told me so herself. But let that pass.
"You must promise me not to speak of me to her when you see her." "But why must I promise that?" "Promise me." "Not unless you tell me why." Johnny had already assured himself that nothing could be more improbable than that he should mention the name of Miss Demolines to Lily Dale. "Very well, sir. Then you may go.
Indeed the less I can bring myself to give up for it, the better I shall think of myself. Now I'll go away and call on old Lady Demolines." "And flirt with her daughter." "Yes; flirt with her daughter, if I get the opportunity. Why shouldn't I flirt with her daughter?" "Why not, if you like it?"
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