“Yes,” she said to the Sister, “that is Mr. John Briggs. I know him intimately.”
“Are you a relative?”
“He has no relatives.”
“You see, in a case like this, we have to report to the police. It’s their business to find somebody responsible.”
“I’m responsible,” said Myra.
The Sister looked at the tall, lean woman, so dignified2 in her well-made iron grey coat and skirt and plain black hat, and was puzzled to place her socially. She might be an austere3 lady of high degree; on the other hand, she spoke4 with an odd, country accent. It was, at any rate, nine hundred and ninety-nine to one that she was a genuine friend of the patient; but there was the remaining one in a thousand that she belonged to the race of cranks not unfamiliar5 in London hospitals.
“It’s only a matter of formality,” said the Sister, “but one must have some proof.”
So Myra drew her bow at a venture.
“Mr. Briggs was going abroad—to Poland.”
The Sister smiled with relief. In his pocket-book had been found railway tickets and unsealed letters to people in Prague and Warsaw. So long as they found some one responsible, it was all that mattered. She proceeded to explain the case. A broken thigh6, broken ribs7, and severe concussion8. Possibly internal injuries. The surgeons could not tell, yet.
Myra scanned again the peaked bit of face beneath the headbandages, which was all that was visible of Alexis Triona, and asked:
“Can he live?”
“It’s doubtful,” said the Sister.
They moved away to the centre of the ward aisle9. The Sister talked of the accident, of the patient’s position.
“He’s a rich man,” said Myra.
“So we gathered,” replied the Sister, who had in her keeping his pocket-book, stuffed with English bank-notes of high value.
“If anything should happen, you of course will let me know.”
“Your name and address?”
She gave it. The sister wrote it down on a note-pad.
“Could I see him just once more?” Myra asked.
“Certainly.”
They went round the screen. Myra stood looking down on the bit she could see of the man who had brought catastrophe10 on her beloved. The shock of recognition, although expected, aroused her pity. Then her heart surged with fierce resentment11. Serve the lying rascal12 right. Why hadn’t the motor-lorry finished the business right away? For all her cultivated impassivity of demeanour, she stood trembling by the bedside, scarcely knowing whether she wished him to die or live. Had he crossed her path unrelated to Olivia, she would have succumbed13 to his boyish charm. He had ever been courteous14, grasping with his subtle tact15 the nature of the bond between her mistress and herself. So she half-loved, half-loathed him. And yet, all this considered, it would be better for Olivia and for himself if he were to die. She glanced swiftly around. The Sister had been called away for a second. She was alone behind the screen. She knew that if she could take that bandaged head in her gloved hands and shake it, he would die, and Olivia would be free. She shivered at the extraordinary temptation. Then reaction came and sped her from his side.
She met the Sister.
“Can I come again to see how he is getting on?”
“By all means.”
“I shouldn’t like him to die,” said Myra.
Said the Sister, somewhat mystified at this negative pronouncement:
“You may be sure we’ll do all we can.”
“I know,” said Myra.
Of these proceedings16, and of these conflicting emotions, she said nothing to Olivia. Nor did she say anything of subsequent visits to the hospital where Triona still lay unconscious.
In a short time Olivia recovered sufficiently17 to dispense18 with the nurse. The doctor prescribed change of air. Olifant once more suggested Medlow, and this time she yielded. But on the afternoon before her departure, while they were packing, she had a strange conversation with Myra.
She held in her hand, uncertain whether to burn it, the last wild letter of Alexis.
“I’m glad he’s gone to Poland,” she said reflectively.
“Why?” asked Myra, not looking up from the trunk by which she was kneeling.
“It’s a man’s work, after all,” said Olivia.
“So’s digging potatoes.”
“I suppose you’re right,” said Olivia.
She tore up the letter and threw the fragments into the fire.
“What a hell marriage can be.”
“It can,” said Myra.
“You’re lucky. You’ve escaped.”
“Have I?” asked Myra intent on the packing of underwear.
At her tone Olivia started. “What do you mean?”
Myra looked up, sitting back on her heels.
“Do you suppose, dearie, you’re the only woman in trouble in the world?”
Olivia moved a step towards her.
“Are you too in trouble, Myra?”
“I’ve been in trouble for the last twenty years, ever since I left your mother’s house to be married to him.”
Olivia stared at her open-mouthed, lost in amazement19. This prim20, puritanical21, predestined spinster of a Myra——
“You—married?”
She swerved22 back into a chair, reeling ever so little under this new shock. If there had been one indubitable, solid fact in her world, one that had stood out absolute during all the disillusions24 of the past year, it was Myra’s implacable spinsterhood. Why, she had seen Myra every day of her life, ever since she could remember, except for the annual holiday. Yes. Those holidays, always a subject for jest with her father and brothers when they were alive. No one had known whither she had gone, or when she had emerged on her reappearance. She had never given an address—so far as Olivia knew. And yet her plunge25 into the unknown had received the unquestioned acceptance of the family. Only last November she had gone in her mysterious way, taking, however, only a fortnight instead of her customary month. Olivia, Heaven knew why, had formed the careless impression that she had betaken herself to some tabby-like Home for religious incurables26, run by her dissenting27 organization. And all this time, tabby-like in another sense, she had been stealing back to her husband. Where was Truth in the world? She repeated mechanically:
“You—married?”
Myra rose stiffly, her joints28 creaking, and stood before her mistress, and perhaps for the first time in her life Olivia saw a gleam of light in the elderly woman’s expressionless pale blue eyes.
“Yes, I’m married. Before the end of my honeymoon29, I found he wasn’t in his right mind. I had to shut him up, and come back to your mother. He’s alive still, in the County Asylum30. I go to see him every year.”
In a revulsion of feeling, Olivia sprang to her feet and held out both her arms.
“Myra—my dear old Myra——”
Myra suffered the young embrace, and then gently disengaged herself.
“There—there——” she said.
“Why have you never told me?”
“Would it have done you any good?”
“It would have made me much more thoughtful and considerate.”
“I’ve never wanted thought or consideration,” said Myra. “You have. So I say—would it have done you any good? Not a ha’p’orth. I’ve been much more use to you as I am. If you want to serve people, don’t go and throw your private life down their throats. It chokes them. You may think it won’t—but it does.”
“But why,” asked Olivia with moist eyes. “Why should you want to serve me like that—your devotion all these years?”
“My duty,” said Myra. “I told you something of the sort a while ago. What’s the good of repeating things? Besides, there was your mother——”
“Did mother know?”
Myra nodded. “She didn’t know I was going to be married. I was young then, and afraid. Madam took me out of an orphanage31, and I thought I was bound for life. . . . He came to Medlow to do thatching. That’s how I met him. His father, one of a large family, had come from Norfolk to settle in the West. The Norfolk thatchers are known all over England. It goes down from father to son. His family had been thatchers in the same village since the Norman Conquest. He was a fine, upstanding man, and in his way an aristocrat—different from the butcher’s boys and baker’s men that came to the back door. I loved him with all my heart. He asked me to marry him. I said ‘Yes.’ We arranged it should be for my next holiday. Up to then, I had spent my holiday at a seaside place connected with the orphanage. One paid a trifle. Instead of going there, I went to his home. It was only when the trouble came that I wrote to your mother. She said the fewer people who knew, the better. I came back as though nothing had happened. Whether she told Mr. Gale32 or not, I don’t know. I don’t think she did. There was a baby—but, thank God, it was born dead. Your mother arranged it all, so that no one should be the wiser. You yourself were the tiniest tot. Perhaps now you see why I have a duty towards the daughter of an angel from Heaven.”
“And all my life——” Olivia began, but Myra interrupted her unemotionally.
“I didn’t tell you any of this, because, as I said, it could do you no good. And it’s your good I’ve lived for. One must have something to live for, anyway. Some folks live for food, other folks live for religion. I’d have lived for religion if it wasn’t for you. I’ve struggled and prayed to find the Way. Often it has been a question of you and Jesus Christ who has called me to forsake33 the vain affections of this world. And I’ve chosen you. I may be damned in Hell for it, but I don’t care.”
She went on her knees again by the trunk, and continued to pack dainty underwear.
“I’ve told you now, because it may do you good to see that you’re not the only married woman in trouble. I’d thank you,” she added after a pause, “to leave me alone with this packing.”
And as Olivia, not daring to yield the fullness of her heart to this strange, impassive creature, lingered by the door, Myra said:
“You’d best go, dearie, and think it out. At any rate, you haven’t got to go through the sorrow of the baby business.”
Whether this was consolation34 or not, Olivia could not decide. If there had been a child, and it had lived, it might have been a comfort and a blessing35. Nothing in its heredity would have marked it with a curse. But still—it would have been a lifelong link with the corporeal36 man whom she had not married, from whom she shrank, and whom she proclaimed her desire never to see again. On the other hand, Myra’s revelation gave her strength and restored her courage. She shuddered37 at the thought of the hopeless lunatic in the County Asylum, dragging out dead years of life. At any rate, she was married to a living man.
Her first days in Medlow passed like a dream. The kindest and gentlest of women, Mary Woolcombe, Olifant’s sister, ministered to her wants. Mrs. Woolcombe, too, had made an unhappy marriage, and now lived apart from her husband, the depraved Oxford38 don. Thus, with her hostess and Myra, Olivia found herself within a little Freemasonry of unsuccessful wives. And one day, when she came to think of it, she laughed out loud.
“We might start a Home,” she said to Myra.
It was only later, when she shook off the strangeness of the dearly familiar, and grew strong enough to venture out into the streets that she found sense of perspective. Not so long ago had she set out on her Great Adventure—only eighteen months. Yet in these she had gathered the experience of eighteen years. . . .
Save for Blaise Olifant’s study, the house was little changed. The oak settle in the hall still showed the marks of the teeth of Barabbas, the bull-terrier pup. The white pane39 in the blue and red window of the bathroom still accused the youthful Bobby, now asleep for ever beneath the sod of Picardy. Her own old room, used by Mrs. Woolcombe, was practically unaltered. She stared into it as she rambled40 about the house, and felt that she had done right in not dispossessing its present occupant. All her girlhood was contained within those four walls, and she could not go back to it. The room would be haunted by its inconsiderable ghosts. She preferred her mother’s room, which, though scrupulously41 kept aired and dusted, had remained under lock and key. There, if ghosts counted for aught, would a spirit pervade42 of exquisite43 sympathy.
As Olifant had promised, she found herself in a strange, indefinable way, again mistress of the house, although she could take no part in its practical direction. He had spoken truth of his sister, whom she loved at first sight. Mary Woolcombe was plump, rosy44, and brown-haired, with her brother’s dark blue eyes. On their first evening leave-taking, Olivia had been impelled45 to kiss her, and had felt the responsive warmth of a sisterly bosom46.
“I do hope you feel at home,” Olifant asked one day after lunch.
“You seem like guests, not hosts,” replied Olivia.
“It’s dear of you to say so,” said Mary Woolcombe, “but I wish you’d prove it by asking your friends to come and see you.”
“I will,” replied Olivia.
But she flushed scarlet47, and, as soon as she was alone, she grappled with realities. And realities nearly always have a nasty element of the ironical48. She remembered the first cloud that swept over her serene49 soul during the honeymoon bliss50 of The Point. They had discussed their future domicile. Alexis had suggested the common-sense solution—“The Towers” as headquarters. She, with the schoolgirl stigma51 of Landsdowne House upon her, and possessed52 by the bitter memory of the nose-in-the-air attitude of the Blair Park crocodile—eternal symbol of social status—had revolted at the suggestion. He, the equal and companion of princes, looked on her—and, if his last crazy letter signified anything—looked still on her, as the high-born lady—the Princess of his dreams. Each, therefore, had deceived the other. She, the daughter of Gale and Trivett, auctioneers and estate agents, and so, by the unwritten law, cut off from the gentry53 of Medlow, had undergone agony of remorse54 for the sake of the son of a Tyneside operative, a boy before the mast, a common chauffeur55, a man far her inferior in the social scale. No wonder he could not understand her hesitancies. Her resentment against him blazed anew. For his sake she had needlessly soiled her soul with deceit and snobbery56. It was well that he had passed out of her life.
“May I invite Mr. Trivett and Mr. Fenmarch to tea?” she asked.
Mary Woolcombe smiled.
“The house is yours, dear. That’s not a Spanish courtesy but an English fact.”
So the two old gentlemen came, and Olivia entertained them in the dining-room, as she had done on the afternoon of her emancipation57. She sat at the end of the comfortably laid table, and the dusty Fenmarch, with the face of an old moulting badger58, drank tea, while, as before, the stout59, red-gilled Trivett drank whisky and soda60 with his hot scones61. This time, the latter explained that the whisky was a treat—forbidden by Mrs. Trivett at the domestic tea-table. They welcomed her back in the kindness of their simple hearts. They knew nothing of her separation from Triona. She had been ill and come down for rest and change.
“And you look as if you need it, my dear,” said Mr. Trivett. “And some of your good father’s old port. There should still be a dozen or two of Cockburn’s ‘70 in the cellar at the present moment—unless Major Olifant has drunk it all.”
Olivia laughed, for it was humorously meant. Mr. Fenmarch in the act of raising his teacup to his lips, put it down again with a sigh and shook his dusty head.
“It was a great wine,” he said with a look backward into the past.
“We’ll have a bottle up,” cried Olivia.
In spite of polite protests, she rang for Myra, and to Myra she gave instructions. And presently Myra, trained from girlhood in the nice conduct of wine, appeared with the cob-webbed bottle, white splash uppermost, tenderly tilted62 in unshaking hands. Trivett took it from her reverently64 while she sought corkscrew and napkin and glasses, and when she placed the napkin pad on the table, and Trivett took the corkscrew, Fenmarch, with the air of one participating in a holy rite66, laid both hands on the sacred bottle and watched the extraction of the cork65 as one who awaits the manifestation67 of the god. The brows of both men were bent68, and they held their breaths. Then the cork came out clear and true, and the broad red face of Trivett was irradiated by an all-pervading smile. It faded into an instant’s seriousness while he smelled the cork—it reappeared triumphant69 as he held the corkscrew, with cork impaled70, beneath the nostrils71 of Fenmarch. Fenmarch sniffed72 and smiled and bowed.
“Olivia, my dear——” said Trivett with a gesture.
Olivia, understanding, held the wine-glasses. The wine flowed clear, gold dissolved in rubies—is there a colour on earth like the colour of old port?
“Nonsense. It was only for the sake of her health that we let her open it—eh, Fenmarch?”
But Fenmarch, eager on the pouring, cried:
“Don’t move your glass, for God’s sake, Olivia. You’ll waste it.”
But Trivett, with a false air of chivalry74, let her off with half a glass. Fenmarch refolded the napkin, so as to give the temporarily abandoned bottle a higher tilt63. The two men smelled the wine. For the first time since the awful night of disillusion23, Olivia felt happy. These old dears! It was like stuffing greedy children with chocolates.
“Ah!” said Fenmarch.
“H’m,” said Trivett, with the knitted brow of puzzlement.
Then, suddenly the grey, badgery little man who had never been known to laugh violently, gave Olivia the shock of her life. He thrust his chair from the table and smacked76 his thigh and exploded in a high-pitched cackle of hilarity77.
“He can’t taste it! He’s been drinking whisky! He has paralysed his palate. I’ve been waiting for it!” He beat the air with his hands. “Oh Lord! That’s good!”
Trivett’s fat jowl fell.
“Moral——” cried the delighted Fenmarch. “Never try to steal a march on your wife—it doesn’t pay, my boy. It doesn’t pay.”
And he inhaled79 the aroma80 of the Heaven-given wine, and drank with the serenity81 of the man who has never offended the high gods.
Olivia, anxious to console, said to Mr. Trivett:
“I’ll send you some round to-morrow.”
Trivett spread out his great arms.
“My dear, it’ll have to settle. If moved, it won’t be fit to drink for a couple of months.”
Eventually he reconciled himself to the loss of the subtler shades of flavour, and he shared with Fenmarch the drinkable remainder of the carefully handled bottle.
“I owe you two dears an apology,” she said.
They protested. An impossibility.
“I do,” she asserted. “The last time you were here, you gave me good advice, which I rejected, like a little fool. I insisted on going up to London with all my money tied up in a bundle, to seek my fortune.”
“Well, my dear,” said Trivett, “haven’t you found it?”
She looked from one to the other, and their wine-cheered faces grew serious as she slowly shook her head.
“I want to tell you something in confidence. It mustn’t get round the town—at any rate, not yet. My husband and I aren’t going to live together any more.”
“God bless my soul!” said Fenmarch.
“So,” she continued, “I’m where I was when I left you. And I don’t want any more adventures. And if you’d take back my bag of gold—there isn’t so much in it now—and advise me what to do with it, I should be very grateful.”
It had cost her some sacrifice of pride to make this little speech. She had rehearsed it; put it off and off during the pleasant wine-drinking. She had flouted84 them once for two unimaginative ancients, and now dreaded85, the possible grudge86 they might have against her. “If you had only listened to us,” they might say, with ill-concealed triumph. If they had done so, she would have accepted it as punishment for her overbearing conceit87 and for her snobbery. But they received her news with a consternation88 so affectionate and so genuine that her eyes filled with tears.
“You won’t ask me why,” she said. “It’s a complicated story—and painful. But it has nothing whatever to do with—with things people are divorced for. I should like you to understand that.”
“Then surely,” said the old lawyer, “as the usual barrier to a reconciliation89 doesn’t exist, there may still be hopes——”
“None,” said Olivia. “My husband has done the right thing. He has gone away—abroad—for ever, and has made it impossible for me to find out his address.”
“My dear,” said Mr. Trivett, his red face growing redder, “I don’t want to know none of your private affairs—” he lost hold of grammar sometimes when deeply moved “—it’s enough for me that you’re in trouble. I’ve known you ever since you were born, and I loved your father, who was the honestest man God ever made.” He stretched out his great, sunglazed hand. “And so, if old Luke Trivett’s any good to you, my dear, you can count on him as long as he’s this side of the daisies.”
“And I’m your good friend, too,” said Mr. Fenmarch in his dustiest manner.
When they had gone, Olivia sat for a long while alone in the dining-room. And she felt as though she had returned to the strong and dear realities of life after a feverish90 wandering among shadows.
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