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Updated: June 13, 2025
"If I speak to Meryl to-night, and she decrees that the engagement shall end, will you promise to ride this way to-morrow morning?" "What for?" trying to speak with nonchalance. "To answer the question I asked you just now." "Which question? I have forgotten it." "I will ask it again to-morrow." "But why all this mystery?... Ask me now. I will answer it if I can."
"There is no heed to reply," Meryl said, after reading her note. "It is only a message from father to say he may be detained until afternoon. Thank you so much for bringing it. Won't you sit down? Can I offer you anything? I'm afraid there is not much choice. Father does not like luxuries in the wilderness, and we only carry whisky." "No, thank you."
Pym, because that might forge a link of friendship it would be difficult to break; and he would not remain at the camp, because that might involve considerable intercourse if Meryl and Diana stayed behind at the hill-side home alone. It would be as well to start early, he could easily manage it; and if he saw no prospect of saying good-bye to Mr.
"You didn't know I was a politician, did you?... As a matter of fact, I'm not!... I'm sick of the whole bag of tricks, and the Empire that fills Meryl with heaves and swells isn't half so much to me as winning a tennis tournament or a golf championship.
It was growing in her consciousness with illuminating clearness that her own happiness depended upon what decision Meryl made. At last there was a movement in the drawing-room as of someone stepping in from the verandah, and she waited breathlessly for a glimpse of Meryl's face.
She got up and roamed round the room, then returned to the window-seat and leaned out of the window watching some workmen who were painting the balcony below them. Meryl sat on silently, still seeking some sort of a solution to something she could not name. "There's such a good-looking workman," Diana remarked presently, "I'm sure he's an artist. I wish he would look up, but he is too shy."
"I have one more journey to make," he told them, "and then I propose to start at once for Enkeldorn and Salisbury. Unfortunately, I am afraid this journey will take two and possibly three days." "Then take us with you," said Diana at once. "It is an unhealthy district or I would. I do not think it would harm you, but I am afraid for Meryl."
Quite suddenly it had occurred to her humour-loving mind, that if shocks were the order of the hour, Carew and Meryl were going to have the biggest all to themselves for that day at least. Then she opened his door and half pushed Meryl in in front of her. They saw only a broad back at the window first, then he half turned.
A little later, glancing in the valley direction, Carew saw the khaki figure for a moment going up the pathway, and the flutter of a light dress, or possibly two, just ahead. He took it for granted that Meryl and Diana had both accompanied Stanley, and that his escort was no longer expected.
"Yes, I think there are. She evidently had many friends, and she has almost lost them all. It is difficult to keep up friendships by post." Then Ailsa herself joined them. "Has Major Carew been with you into the temple, yet?" she asked Meryl. "He is better than any guide-book for information." Meryl coloured faintly, but looked a little amused.
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