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But do you write immediately. And now I think of it, you had better write to Fisher, so that he can show your letter to Lupex, just saying, that to the best of your belief there had never been anything between her and me but mere friendship; and that, of course, you, as my friend, must have known everything.
"Speak for yourself, Mrs Lupex," said Amelia. "There's no harm in saying that, is there? I'm sure, if you ain't, you're very hard-hearted; for, if ever there was a true lover, I believe you've got one of your own. My! if there's not Lupex's step on the stair! What can bring him home at this hour? If he's been drinking, he'll come home as cross as anything."
And as he repeated the words, for the third time, his lips were already fixed to the rim of his tumbler. At this moment the door of the dining-room was opened, and Mrs Lupex put in her head. "Lupex," she said, "what are you doing?" "Yes, my dear. I can't say I'm doing anything at the present moment. I was giving a little advice to these young gentlemen." "Mr Cradell, I wonder at you.
Such was the case also with Miss Spruce, and with Amelia, and with Jemima. They had all thought him to be a great fool for running away with Mrs Lupex, but now they were beginning to think him a poor creature because he had not done so. Had he committed that active folly he would have been an interesting fool.
"I suppose I shall marry her, and there'll be an end of me," he said to himself, as he remembered a short note which he had once written to her in his madness. There had been a little supper at Mrs Roper's, and Mrs Lupex and Amelia had made the punch.
"Hearts is divided. Hearts that have been joined together ought never to be divided; ought they?" And then she hung upon his arm just as they got to the drawing-room door. "Hearts and darts are all my eye," said Johnny. "My belief is that a man had better never marry at all. How d'you do, Mr Lupex? Is anything the matter?"
From which expression, and from the fact that Mrs Lupex depended greatly upon her stays and crinoline for such figure as she succeeded in displaying, it may, perhaps, be understood that Mr Cradell did not understand much about form. "It seems to me that her nose isn't quite straight," said Johnny Eames. Now, it undoubtedly was the fact that the nose on Mrs Lupex's face was a little awry.
"Amelia, what's all this?" said Mrs Roper, trying to assume a look of agonised amazement. "Ask Mrs Lupex," said Amelia. "And Mrs Lupex will answer," said that lady. "Your daughter has come in here, and attacked me in such language before Mr Cradell too " "Why doesn't she pay what she owes, and leave the house?" said Amelia. "Hold your tongue," said her brother.
"Mrs Lupex, I'm not expecting to get married, not particularly, by any means." "Oh, I thought you were. And let me tell you, that when you've got a husband of your own, you won't find it so easy to keep everything straight. That's the worst of these lodgings; if there is any little thing, everybody knows it. Don't they, Miss Spruce?"
"I found the noble earl pretty well, thank you," said Johnny. It had become plainly understood by all the Roperites that Eames's position was quite altered since he had been honoured with the friendship of Lord De Guest. Mrs Lupex, next to whom he always sat at dinner, with a view to protecting her as it were from the dangerous neighbourhood of Cradell, treated him with a marked courtesy.
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