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Updated: June 10, 2025
"On this subject?" "Yes." "And what did he say?" I told him as well as I could what my father had said, being ashamed to repeat it. "That was only bluff, though," said Martin. "The real truth is that you would cease to be Lady Raa and that would be a blow to his pride. Then there would no longer be any possibility of establishing a family and that would disturb his plans. No matter!
"The pavilion in which the fête was to have been held had been erected on a headland between Castle Raa and a precipitous declivity to the sea, and the only reasonable conjecture is that the unhappy lady, going out on Thursday night to superintend the final preparations, lost her way in the darkness and fell over the cliffs.
The civil ceremony of my marriage was now over, and Lord Raa, who had been very restless, rose to his feet, saying: "Beastly early drive. Anything in the house to steady one's nerves, High Bailiff?" The High Bailiff made some reply, at which the men laughed, all except my father.
On the way home Father Dan talked of the business that had brought me back, saying I was not to think too much of anything he might have said of Lord Raa in his letters, seeing that he had spoken from hearsay, and the world was so censorious and then there was no measuring the miraculous influence that might be exercised by a good woman.
'Ye'll mind Tam Elliot, replied the elder, 'him that was nevvy to auld Sandy o' the Ratten Raa farm that died and left him part money.
I noticed that Aunt Bridget, with something of the instinct of the fly about the flame, immediately fixed herself upon the one, and that Betsy Beauty attached herself to the other. Lord Raa himself looked as tired as before, and for the first half-hour he behaved as if he did not quite know what to do with himself for wretchedness and ennui.
My mind was far from clear and I had a sense of seeing things by flashes only, but I remember that I thought Lord Raa was very nervous, and it even occurred to me that early as it was he had been drinking. "Beastly nuisance, isn't it?" he said to me aside, and then there was something about "this legal fuss and fuddlement."
We reached Blackwater in good tithe for the boat, and when the funnels had ceased trumpeting and we were well away, I saw that we were sitting in one of two private cabins on the upper deck; and then Father Dan told me that the other was occupied by the young Lord Raa, and his guardian, and that they were going up together for the first time to Oxford.
That Martin's story was true I had never one moment's doubt, first because Martin had told it, and next because it agreed at all points with the little I had learned of Lord Raa in the only real conversation I had yet had with him.
Thus at one moment, as I was going by the National Gallery and thought I caught the sound of Martin's name, I felt as if I were back in Glen Raa, and it was I myself who had been calling it.
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