He still had the ineffable10 quality of charm, when he willed to exert it, which made his selfishness seem to many only the outcome of impulsive11 youthfulness. In a shamefaced way he admitted to himself now that he was in the wrong and that he had stupidly involved his affairs, but he comforted himself in the same moment, with the fatuousness12 of self-indulgence, that everything would work out all right. To tide over this difficulty or adjust and evade13 for a time the demand of the hour had been his policy for so long that he could not realize that an end was possible to the long tether he so often abused.
He had come in response to an urgent summons. Opposite him, deeply absorbed in some papers, sat Johnston Petrie, the trusted solicitor of the Kerhill family since Henry's father came into the title. He was a large, powerfully built man of fifty-five, with a massive head, piercing black eyes under shaggy eyebrows14, and close-cropped iron-gray curls above the shrewd face. Henry rose impatiently to go.
As he did so, Petrie lifted his glasses on their black ribbon to his eyes, and said, "I'm exceedingly sorry, your Lordship, but you must give me time to look more closely into that affair before I can venture a final opinion as to the condition of the estate. Besides, I have several other matters of the gravest importance to question you about; they pertain15 to some business transactions you made recently without my knowledge, while you were abroad."
He motioned his lordship to a chair as though to pursue deeper the conversation, and drew several documents from a drawer. Henry Kerhill fidgeted.
"It's impossible, Petrie. Next week, after the wedding, or after we return from Scotland, I'll have leisure then to discuss these things with you, and I really mean this time to have you adjust everything and set me quite straight."
Johnston Petrie shook his head.
"Oh, I know," Henry continued, "I've been careless, but I mean to pull up. I'll start fair from next week."
Johnston Petrie looked up sharply. He knew more of his client's career than Henry cared to remember. He had known him from boyhood, and his shrewd summing up of human nature could see only pitfalls16 ahead for Lady Elizabeth's son. He had tried in every way to stop the reckless living of his client. From the incessant17 demands made on the estate for large sums of ready money he knew that Henry Wynnegate, irritated by the conservative principles of his firm, had used outside help to prevent his family adviser18 from obtaining knowledge of some recent speculations19.
Long ago Johnston Petrie would have asked to be released from the responsibilities of the Kerhill affairs, out for a loyal devotion to his dead client, the late Earl, and a desire to protect Lady Elizabeth's fast diminishing rights. He was not in the least deceived by Henry's machinations, but wilfully20 allowed himself to seem blind to certain matters. He wished to be able to keep his hand at the lever, and argued with his brother that the end justified21 the means.
Lady Elizabeth in a recent interview had assured him that the coming marriage would be the turning-point in Henry's career. Nevertheless, he feared her judgment22. Something in Henry's attitude to-day had made him more apprehensive23; it had been impossible to pin him down to a serious consideration of his affairs. Petrie determined24 to venture a final effort, by enrolling25 his brother's services to strengthen his admonitions.
"Lord Kerhill," he said. "My brother is also most anxious to see you regarding some stocks you asked his advice about." He touched a bell; a clerk answered from an adjoining room.
"Ask Mr. Malcolm Petrie to come to us. Say that the Earl of Kerhill is here."
Henry chafed26 under the calm firmness of his solicitor. He had come in answer to an imperative27 note, and the discussion of his complicated affairs was extremely disagreeable. He was in no mood to continue it further. He moved to the door as Malcolm Petrie entered; a smaller counterpart of his brother, and a silent member of the firm, he took the same personal interest in the Kerhill affairs that his brother did. As he started to speak he was stopped by Henry.
"It's no use. I can wait no longer. A most important engagement demands my leaving at once. Advise me by letter—it will reach me to-morrow." And before either of the men could urge upon him the necessity of being allowed to advise him on certain negotiations28, he had reached the outer door of the chambers, mounted the few steps leading to the court, and was in the square where his cab was waiting. He cursed the dreariness29 of the day as the rain splashed him. For a moment he hesitated. They had detained him far too long, these croaking30 fogies in their stuffy31 office. His hand fumbled32 in his pocket where lay a letter with a message not to be disregarded. On its arrival at his club early in the afternoon the note to Diana had been despatched.
The fury of haste that had made him so eager to escape from his business interview now deserted33 him. The rain drenched34 him in warm torrents35. The driver on the box was a running stream, and from the horse came clouds of heavy steam.
Then the momentary36 irresolution37 passed as he gave his orders to the impassive cabman. He leaned back in his cab, tearing into shreds38 the mauve letter with its gold monogram39 as he muttered, "It's for the last time, by God." The hansom started with a jerk. It rattled40 down an alley41. To Henry the damp, dismal42 court looked more than ever like a graveyard43. He was glad when they turned into the vortex of the Strand44.
That night at the opera, a new singer was to make her début in "Carmen." In Paris and America this sloe-eyed Italian had made the sensation of the half-century in her creation of the gypsy wanton. The brilliant throng45 in Covent Garden was alive with anticipation46. The royalties47 were expected; indeed, the queen herself had especially commanded this reception for the gifted woman whom she had honored as her guest on the Riviera, where this singing Rachel had entranced her with the folk-songs and lullabies of her beloved country.
All that the London season could assemble of wit, beauty, and distinction was gathered in the Opera-House. The tiers of boxes were filling unusually early. Near the stage sat the Prime-Minister, a man of strong artistic48 perceptions and a writer of extraordinary talent. His face, with the marked cleft49 in the square chin, looked less dreamy than usual to-night, and the large, pale-blue eyes, amusedly surveyed the house. He seemed to have slipped off the yoke50 of tangled51 politics as he turned to his secretary, who was pointing out to him the celebrities52 in the stalls.
"There is the delightful53 American whom I met last week at Lord Blight's." As he spoke54, he bowed to the new American favorite, Mrs. Hobart Chichester Chichester Jones, a radiant figure in scarlet56, who found many glasses levelled at her.
"Only an American would dress so originally," the minister replied.
The American wore a gown of clinging scarlet fabric57, the decidedly low-cut corsage showing the perfection of the white shoulders and arms. Around her throat she had twisted one long rope of uncut pearls and diamonds that reached below her waist, and in the soft, waving, red-gold hair she had arranged some daring scarlet geraniums. With her pale skin and great green eyes she enchanted58 London by her unusual type. Near her was the famous story-book Duchess, as the most popular of the younger beauties was called. "Too good to be true," Truth declared her, and indeed she seemed to have been especially created to confirm the mode of the old-fashioned romances extolling59 the grace and loveliness of an English Duchess. The crowd noticed the famous rubies60 that shone like tiny flames against the white gown.
Here and there a Dowager gleamed like a shelf in a Bond Street jeweller's shop, so promiscuous61 was her array of gems62. The younger school of beauties with more wisdom employed their jewels differently, using them as an added tone of color or a touch of brilliance63 to a costume. In the stalls the art world was well represented. Painters and writers with a sprinkling of actors and actresses, who were not playing, were on hand to-night to greet the new-comer. From the gallery rail a crowd of eager, swarthy faces peered, impatiently gesticulating to one another, because of the failure of the curtain to ascend64 at the given time. It was known that the prima-donna was a capricious creature, often swayed by a mere65 whim66 from making her appearance. Once the death of a mocking-bird had postponed67 her début as Marguerite. Would she really appear?
As the royalties entered the box, the excitement was at fever-heat. Henry with his mother impatiently awaited Diana's arrival.
The overture68 began its sensuous69, stirring appeal, and before the cigarette-girl crossed the bridge in the street scene, every seat and box was occupied.
The singer made the ill-starred Carmen a bewitching and compelling wanton. Who that saw her will ever forget her delicious cajolery as she urged the bewitched Don José to loosen the ropes that bound her? With her Habanera she eclipsed all predecessors70 and made the role irrevocably hers. The first act ended with a storm of bravas from the gallery and vociferous71 applause from the rest of the house.
It was not until the tumultuous ovation72 over the first act had ceased that Diana's presence was noticed by the audience. Accompanied by her father, she had arrived at the close of the overture, and had only time to slip into her place before the curtain arose. The walk in the rain had given her delicate skin a touch of color and heightened the beauty of her tender eyes, "so deeply blue that they were black," as Lord Patrick Illington described them on his first meeting at her presentation at Court. Her bands of straight hair were wound around her head; pale-green draperies encircled her lithesome body, and the gardenia73 blossoms in her hair gave her a fleeting74 likeness75 to the water-sprite Undine. In the horseshoe of fashionable mondaines the fragrance76 of her beauty was like that of a dew-sprayed rose.
Mrs. Hobart Chichester Chichester Jones, with her usual common-sense of seeing things as they were, leaned towards the man beside her.
"That is a beauty—the real thing; no chic55, no gowning, no Paris wisdom of make-up, but a beauty. I'm glad I've seen it." She sank back as though philosophically77 preparing for a Waterloo.
From his box the Prince noticed the daughter of Sir Charles Marjoribanks whose services in diplomacy78 in his youth were not forgotten. Forthwith an equerry was sent to Sir Charles and Diana inviting79 them to visit the royal presence.
Diana was the social novelty of the season. The Prime-Minister remembered his classics as he dreamily gazed at her and murmured, "Is this the face that launched a thousand ships?"
From the back of the box, Henry watched Diana's impression on the house. His eyebrows were drawn80 into horns of suppressed temper and there was an air of brutal81 determination in his bearing. Gradually his expression cleared. Diana's beauty that night stirred the best in him. He tried to dismiss the events of the afternoon; he would be worthy82 of this child-woman. He set his shoulders square as though preparing to fight unseen forces.
"Lucky fellow, Kerhill," one man confided83 to another as they watched the crowd's sweeping84 glasses pause constantly at Diana Marjoribanks's box and saw the triumphant85 look on Henry's face.
The sinuous86, commanding Carmen had reached her triumphant entry with the toreador when the mad Don José's dagger87 drew the purple stain on the gold-embroidered gown. Over the house a spell-bound silence reigned88. As from an animal wounded to the death, low sounds of agonized89 pain came from the great actress—she forgot to sing, and the house forgot that she was a singer in an opera comique. For the moment it faced the realistic truth of a grim tragedy.
Excited and intoxicated90 by the sensuous music, Diana was hardly conscious that the opera was over. She was like a child with the world for a great, colored balloon. As she came down the winding91 staircase she was almost happy, and turned to smile at Henry, who was by her side. As she did so she saw him frown. They reached the foot of the staircase, and found their way half-barred by a dark, foreign-looking woman robed in a spun-gold gown. Diana noticed the insolent92, amused expression on her handsome face, but at that moment her attention was diverted by some one who spoke to her, and she only vaguely93 noticed Henry's constrained94 bow, and the sudden brutal flame in his eyes.
Only later, as she sleepily looked over at the park in the dim light, did she remember that the woman in cloth of gold at the bottom of the staircase was strangely like the vivid, foreign-looking woman who had flashed past her in the park as the storm broke.
The wedding took place at St. George's, Hanover Square. It was the first brilliant wedding of the season and royalty95 honored it, not by sending a deputy, but by its personal presence. Diana passed through the gay pageant96 and heard the conventional words of well-wishers like one in a dream. She remembered being changed into a going-away frock—the curious street crowd gathering97 around her as she left the reception at the Park Lane house. Then as she entered the brougham she was conscious of Henry's face drawn close to hers, and the old frightened instincts that her father only a week ago had soothed98 and quelled99 again took possession of her. A great wall of fear closed in about her.
At last the carriage reached the station.
Diana leaned back in their compartment100 in the train northbound for Scotland. The bustle101 of the outgoing crowds was holding Henry's attention as she glanced over the afternoon paper, which gave a prominent position to the brilliant wedding that had taken place at St. George's only a few hours ago.
Suddenly she espied102 a name that made her heart leap. A brief paragraph told of the reward to be conferred on Captain James Wynnegate, but a longer account followed, giving details of his gallant103 work in the Northwestern Hills.
A great longing104 to see the friend of her childhood came over her. She was ashamed that she had forgotten him so long.
Henry entered the compartment, the guard closed the door, and the train started on its journey. Her husband spoke to her and she answered him in an absent manner. The sudden remembrance of her old playmate grew vividly105 and seemed to blot106 out all else, as, following on her self-reproach for forgetting him, came the thought, growing more poignant107; "Did Jim remember her?"
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fatuousness
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adviser
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speculations
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enrolling
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negotiations
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