Pramlay received them in the pretty chintz drawing-room, which opened by French windows on the trim garden, with its croquet lawn, its tennis-net in the middle distance, and its remote rose alley lined with smart dahlias and flaming sunflowers. Before the congregation separated, the clergyman descended from the pulpit; and, followed by the coffin-bearers and mourners, and by Jack at a respectful distance, entered the churchyard. For her mother to betray her seemed inevitable, but the betrayal seemed worse than her fate. She, having all the confidence in the world, ripped off an end and drew out the contents—a letter and a check. The cloth was removed, and Wood, drawing the table as near the window as possible—for it was getting dusk —put on his spectacles, and opened that sacred volume from which the best consolation in affliction is derived, and left the lovers—for such they may now be fairly termed—to their own conversation. Horrible details recurred to her. Her eyes were dilated— fixed in a horrified stare at the parting in the curtains which hung before the window. We have a great deal to discuss, you and I. The stain was blood, but this was a stain that resulted from being up one’s elbows in blood! She smiled a nurse’s knowing smile. You did not complain then that I personated you—no, nor when Sir John came to me in Paris, and for your sake I lied. There must be ways of getting rid of him. Then they appear among the lower things”—she made meticulous gestures to figure the scale of life; she seemed to be holding up specimens, and peering through her glasses at them —“among crustaceans and things, just as little creatures, ever so inferior to the females.
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