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Maggie looked at Sally across the pile of peaches, but Sally had no ears for the report, only for Jimmy's voice. Her head wagged as she talked, and Maggie wondered if they were exchanging napkins or rings beneath the table. At that moment the servant handed a letter on a salver to Maggie, saying, "From Mrs. Horlock; the servant is waiting an answer, miss." Grace trembled.
"I know it was. If Mrs. Horlock likes to know these people, let her know them; but what does she want to force them upon us for? That's what I want to know. We might never have known any one in the Southdown Road; I mean we never should, we never could have known any one in the Southdown Road if Mrs. Horlock hadn't come to live there. We had to call upon her."
"Horlock, I appreciate your offer because I know that there is a large amount of self-denial in it, but I am glad of an opportunity to end all these discussions. My word is passed to Dartrey." "And Miller?" the Prime Minister asked, with calm irony. Tallente felt the sting and frowned irritably. "I have had no discussions of any sort with Miller," he answered.
"One moment," he begged, as the Prime Minister's forefinger rested upon the button of the bell. "Now may I tell you just why I came to pay you this visit?" "If there is anything more left to be said," Mr. Horlock conceded, with an air of exaggerated patience. "There is just this," Tallente declared.
Tallente found his period of detention all too short. He was summoned in to see Dartrey, who welcomed him warmly. "Sit down, Tallente," he invited. "We are both of us men who believe in simple things and direct action. Have you made up your mind?" "I have," Tallente announced. "I have broken finally with Horlock. I have told him that I am coming to you."
"But do you mean to say," Tallente asked, "that when Horlock goes down, as go down he must within the next few months, you are not prepared to take his place?" "I should never accept the task of forming a government," Dartrey said quietly, "unless I am absolutely driven to do so. I have shown the truth to the world.
You know I want other things. They told me when I married you," she went on, warming with her own sense of injury, "that you were certain to be Prime Minister. They told me that the Coalition Party couldn't do without you, that you were the only effective link between them and Labour. You had only to play your cards properly and you could have pushed out Horlock whenever you liked.
The story of Town's impertinence was told. The General was shocked it was surprising. What are we coming to? The retired farmer said that Town was a hot-tempered man, but not a bad sort when you knew how to take him, and all, except Mrs. Horlock, agreed that the landlord was the person who should be consulted.
The young man's subtle intimation was a shock in more ways than one. "The manuscript to which you refer," he said at last, "was stolen from my study at Martinhoe under somewhat peculiar conditions." "Perhaps you would like to explain those conditions to Mr. Horlock," Williams suggested. Tallente held open the door.
Horlock will paint him; there is some beautiful drawing about him those fore- legs." Probably attracted by the dog, Mrs. Horlock came walking towards them. Triss went sidling after Rose, and when Mrs. Horlock called him, he growled. "I beg of you, Mrs. Horlock, do not touch him; he isn't safe, I assure you. He once bit a man's nose off who was trying to train him to do something or other.
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