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"Hilda," said Lalage, "look it out." Hilda chose, the largest dictionary and after a short hesitation picked up the volume labelled "Jab to Sli." She stared at the word without speaking for some time after she found it. Lalage and I looked over her shoulder and, when we saw the definition, stared too.
Had he not belonged to a family of position, he might have seen himself as a coward or a cad; but the Griersons were essentially of the Victorian age, and so he was able to quiet his conscience with platitudes; whilst under the seeming calmness with which Lalage had accepted his proposal, she was too glad of any change from the nightmare of the past to be very critical.
For Lalage these days passed with unutterable slowness. There was, of necessity, very little to do in the way of cooking, and she had not the heart to go out.
"Where to?" "Belem." "Belem's a church, isn't it, Hilda?" Hilda and I both admitted that it was. "Then we can't go there," said Lalage decidedly. "Why not?" I ventured to ask. "You said yourself that it wouldn't be decent." "Oh!" I said, "you're thinking of those poor bishops; but you haven't done anything to the Portuguese patriarch yet. Besides, only half of Belem is a church.
He had been craving for the society of his own kind; yet now he had got it it did not seem such a very great thing after all; for Lalage Penrose had come into his life, and the thought of her was uppermost in his mind.
I might have passed without being hailed if it had not happened that I was riding a new bicycle. In those days bicycles were still rare in the west of Ireland. Mine was a new toy and Lalage had never seen it before. She climbed from her tree top with remarkable agility and swung herself from the lowest branch with such skill and activity that she alighted on her feet close beside the bicycle.
Whereupon Jimmy lost his temper, paid her a week in lieu of notice, and went straight back to Lalage, who received him with delight. "So you haven't changed your mind at the last moment, as you would have done if you had been wise, and good and," she laughed mischievously, "Grierson-like." "All I care about is being good to you, sweetheart," he answered. "But why do you say 'Grierson-like'?"
But I'd be afraid of their going back on us and supporting Vittie. Anyhow, if these women are the right sort they'll pursue Vittie round and round the constituency and yell at him every time he opens his mouth." I took the letter from Titherington. It was headed A.S.P.L. and signed Lalage Beresford. "Are you quite sure," I said, "that the A.S.P.L. is a woman's suffrage society?"
I'm beginning to think that there isn't really any such person as Selby-Harrison." Hilda giggled thickly. She seemed to be quite comfortable again. Lalage snubbed me severely. "I must say for you," she said, "that when you choose to go in for pretending to be an ass you can be more funerally idiotic than any one I ever met. No wonder the Archdeacon said you'd be beaten in your election."
Without me you wouldn't have got at those kings." "In the meanwhile," said Lalage, "I could do with some tea and another ice. Couldn't you, Hilda?" Hilda could and did. I took them to an excellent shop in the Rua Aurea, where Hilda had three ices and Lalage four, after tea. I only had one. Lalage twitted me with my want of appetite. "I can't eat any more." I said.
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