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Updated: June 22, 2025
"I am afraid that my sudden departure from Miss Polehampton's school has prejudiced some people against me." "And could not somebody write to Miss Polehampton and get her to give you a testimonial?" "I am afraid she would refuse." "And that is all Margaret Adair's fault, is it not?" said Lady Ashley, shrewdly but kindly. She was amused to see the flush of indignation in Janetta's face.
And his silence and apparent estrangement lay upon Janetta's heart like lead. Poor Janetta was going through a time of depression and disappointment. Mrs. Colwyn had had two or three terrible relapses, and her condition could no longer be kept quite a secret from her friends.
"It was brandy eau-de-vie horrid hot stuff that maman used to drink," said little Julian, with a burst of angry sobs, "and I promised not I promised old Susan that I never would!" "It was only a joke," said the master of the house, coming forward now, and anxious perhaps to avert the storm threatened by a sudden indignant flash of Janetta's great dark eyes. "We were not in earnest of course."
Brand, she was not blind to the advantages that would accrue to herself through connection with a County family. She was not, however, as fully informed in the details of the little love-affair as she imagined herself to be. Janetta's share in bringing about a dénouement and retarding its further development was quite unknown to her. The delay, which some of Mr.
Janetta thought the face had grown wonderfully tragic of late; but she hoped that when Juliet had left the house the poor mother would again recover the serenity of mind which she had gained during the past few months of Janetta's gentle companionship. She wrote her letter to Wyvis, making it as brief and business-like as possible.
Janetta would have put on her afternoon black cashmere and little silver brooch, and would have felt herself perfectly well dressed; but Margaret, after a little consultation with the very grand young person who condescended to brush Miss Colwyn's hair, had herself brought to Janetta's room a dress of black lace over cherry-colored silk, and had begged her to put it on.
Margaret Adair looked up and smiled at her from a corner, when Janetta first came forward to sing. She was one of the very few girls who were present, for most of the young people were in the garden; but she had insisted on coming in to hear Janetta's song.
The girl could not answer; she knew well enough that Janetta's stepmother was not at all the sort of person whom Lady Caroline Adair would willingly speak to, and yet she did not like to say that her acquaintance with Janetta had only been made at a Beaminster dancing class. Probably Miss Polehampton divined the fact.
"She is very much alone: it would be a great comfort to her to have some one about her some one whom she liked some one who would be like a daughter to her " A conviction as to the cause of his visit flashed across Janetta's mind. He was going to ask her to become Lady Ashley's companion! With her usual quickness she forgot to wait for the proposition, and answered it before it was made.
One gets so hurried in the vestry always; they are so impatient with their fiddles! A great deal of it was Janetta's fault." "It always is my fault, papa, somehow or other," the young lady answered, with a faultless smile: and so they went home to the early Sunday dinner.
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