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Updated: June 11, 2025
They were waiting for the bride's page, who descended with the youngest bridesmaid from the last carriage, and the two came into the church demurely, hand in hand, "What darlings!" "Aren't they pretty?" "What a sweet little boy, with his lovely dark curls!" was heard from all sides; but there was also an audible titter. Lady Adeline turned pale, Mrs. Frayling's fan dropped.
She made no preliminary affectionate enquiries such as might have been expected regarding her niece's outing or general well-being, but darted, not to say exploded, into the declaration: "Darling, I am so exceedingly glad you weren't at home! Mrs. Frayling's card?" This, as the girl sat down on the sofa beside her. "Then you know who's been here.
We are ordered away and start for Cotteret-les-Bains in a day or two. Dr. Stewart-Walker considers the move imperative on account of General Frayling's health. This was only settled yesterday. Marshall would have rushed here to tell you; but I forbade him. I felt I must tell you myself. I confess it is a blow to me.
So do like him and encourage him a little it would be such a help and happiness to me as well as to him, dearest Damaris." Mrs. Frayling's afternoon party passed off to admiration. But this by no means exhausted her social activities. Rather did it stimulate them; so that, with Damaris' amusement as their ostensible object and excuse, they multiplied exceedingly.
Her shoulders were of an order far too refined to rub or be rubbed. Nevertheless, after the shortest interval consistent with self-respect, such society as St. Augustin and its neighbourhood afforded found itself enmeshed in her dainty net. Mrs. Frayling's villa became a centre, where all English-speaking persons met.
But the girl heeded neither disputant, her attention rapt in watching the play of the falling water. Throughout the evening she had easily been chief centre of attraction, besieged by partners. And those not only her present rival attendants or Marshall Wace; but by Mrs. Frayling's various importations, plus Mr.
Major Colquhoun muttered something about having been taken in himself. After the reading of the letter, Mrs. Frayling's comely plump face looked drawn and haggard. She could not utter a word at first, and had even exhausted her stock of tears. All at once, however, she recovered her voice, and gave sudden utterance to a determination. "I must go to that child!" she exclaimed.
I could not think of him as I do of other men. I cannot dissociate him from his office. I expect him somehow to be always about his reading-desk and pulpit." Mrs. Frayling's face had fallen, but she only said: "I wish you could have felt otherwise, dear." Evadne went up to her room, and stood leaning against the frame of the open window, looking out over the level landscape.
"Ah, my child, the thought of you is inextricably joined to other thoughts upon which I should be far wiser not to dwell far wiser to put from me and forget only they are stronger than I am and I can't." There was a ring of honest human feeling in Henrietta Frayling's voice for once. "No, no I am more justly an object of commiseration than anyone I leave behind me at St. Augustin."
The wedding breakfast went off merrily enough, and when the bride and bridesmaids left the table, and the dining room door was safely shut, there was much girlish laughter in the hall, and an undignified scamper up the stairs, also a tussle as to who should take the first pin from the bride's veil and be married next, and much amusement when Mrs, Frayling's elderly maid unconsciously appropriated it herself in the way of business.
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