But at the beginning of the affray, when he
thought every one was too much occupied with his own concerns to remark his
absence, he slipped out of the room, not for the purpose of avoiding the
engagement (for cowardice was not one of his failings), but because he had
another object in view. ‘She won’t confide in you? Now, why?’
‘Because that scoundrel Leonardo drummed it into her head that no man was
to be trusted,’ Gerald announced viciously. "It is time you should
know whom you have to deal with. He wore a silk hat a little tilted, and a morning coat buttoned round
a tight, contained figure; and a white slip gave a finish to his costume and
endorsed the quiet distinction of his tie. ”
“How would you know I’m not ready? I’m older than
you, remember? Sometimes you act so worldly, as if
you’d seen it all. I hope that she
is okay. “Another young woman, I suppose,” he said, “who knows better than her
Maker about her place in the world. But it is all
over now, and presently there will be some one else. “Do you mean, aunt,” she asked, “that my father thought I had gone off—with
some man?”
“What else COULD he think? Would any one DREAM you would be so mad
as to go off alone?”
“After—after what had happened the night before?”
“Oh, why raise up old scores? If you could see him this morning, his poor face
as white as a sheet and all cut about with shaving! He was for coming up by the
very first train and looking for you, but I said to him, ‘Wait for the letters,’ and
there, sure enough, was yours. It is like a
second honeymoon. All through the
night an entirely impossible and monumental Capes confronted her, and she
argued with him about men and women. E. ’
‘Only in hot blood, eh?’ grinned Gerald.
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