The letter to Lord Seely was duly written, and this time in Castalia's own words. Algernon refused to assist her in the composition of it, saying, in answer to her appeals, "No, no, Cassy; I shall make no suggestion whatsoever1. I don't choose to expose myself to any more grandiloquence2 from your uncle about letters being 'written by your hand, but not dictated3 by your head.' I wonder at my lord talking such high-flown stuff. But pomposity4 is his master weakness."
Castalia's letter was as follows:
"Whitford, November 23rd.
"Dear Uncle Val,—I am sure you will understand that I was very much surprised and hurt at the tone of your last letter to Ancram. Of course, if you have not the money to help us with, you cannot lend it. And I don't complain of that. But I was vexed5 at the way you wrote to Ancram. You won't think me ungrateful to you. I know how good you have always been to me, and I am fonder of you than of anybody in the world except Ancram. But nobody can be unkind to him without hurting me, and I shall always resent any slight to him. But I am writing now to ask you something that 'I wish for very much myself;' it is quite my own desire. I am not at all happy in this place. And I want you to get Ancram a berth6 somewhere in the Colonies, quite away. It is no use changing from one town in England to another. What we want is to get 'far away,' and put the seas between us and all the odious7 people here. I am sure you might get us something if you would try. I assure you Ancram is perfectly8 wasted in this hole. Any stupid grocer or tallow-chandler could do what he has to do. Do, dear Uncle Val, try to help us in this. Indeed I shall never be happy in Whitford.—Your affectionate niece,
"C. Errington.
"Give my love to Aunt Belinda if she cares to have it. But I daresay she won't.—C. E."
"I think my lord will not doubt the genuineness of that epistle!" thought Algernon, after having read it at his wife's request.
Then the fly was announced, and they set off together to pass the evening at the elder Mrs. Errington's lodgings9. The "Blue Bell" driver touched his hat in a very respectful manner. His master's long-standing account was unpaid10, but he continued to receive, for his part, frequent half-crowns from Algernon, who liked the immediate11 popularity to be purchased by a gift somewhat out of proportion to his means. Indeed, our young friend enjoyed a better reputation amongst menials and underlings than amongst their employers. The former were apt to speak of him as a pleasant gentleman who was free with his money; and to declare that they felt as if they could do anything for young Mr. Errington, so they could! He had such a way with him! Whereas the mere12 payment of humdrum13 debts excites no such agreeable glow of feeling, and is altogether a flat, stale, and unprofitable proceeding14.
"What o'clock shall we say, Castalia?" asked her husband, as they alighted at Mrs. Thimbleby's door.
"Tell him to come at half-past ten," returned Castalia.
It chanced that David Powell was re-entering his lodgings at the moment the younger Erringtons reached the door. He stood aside to let the lady pass into the house before him, and thus heard her answer. The sound of her voice made him start and bend forward to look at her face when the light from the open door fell upon it. She turned round at the same instant, and the two looked full at each other. David Powell asked Mrs. Thimbleby if that lady were not the wife of Mr. Algernon Errington.
"Yes, Mr. Powell, she is his wife; and more's the pity, if all tales be true!"
"Judge not uncharitably, sister Thimbleby! Nor let your tongue belie15 the gentleness of your spirit. It is an unruly member that speaks not always out of the fulness of the heart. The lady seems very sick, and bears the traces of much sorrow on her countenance16."
"Oh yes, indeed, poor thing! Sickly enough she looks, and sorry. Nay17, I daresay she has her own trials, but I fear me she leads that pleasant young husband of hers a poor life of it. I shouldn't say as much to anyone but you, sir, for I do try to keep my tongue from evil-speaking. But had you never seen her before, Mr. Powell?"
Powell answered musingly18, "N—no—scarcely seen her. But I had heard her voice."
Mrs. Errington received her son and daughter-in-law with an effusive19 welcome. She was so astonished; so delighted. It was so long since she had seen them. And then to see them together! That had latterly become quite a rare treat. The good lady expatiated20 on this theme until Castalia's brow grew gloomy with the recollection of her wrongs, her solitary21 hours spent so drearily22, and her suspicions as to how her husband employed the hours of his absence from her. And then Mrs. Errington began playfully to reprove her for being dull and silent, instead of enjoying dear Algy's society now that she had it! "I am sure, my dear Castalia," said the elder lady with her usual self-complacent stateliness, "you won't mind my telling you that I consider one of the great secrets of the perfect felicity I enjoyed during my married life to have been the interest and pleasure I always took—and showed that I took—in Dr. Errington's society."
"Perhaps he liked your society," returned Castalia with a languid sneer23, followed by a short bitter sigh.
"Preferred it to any in the world, my dear!" said Mrs. Errington, mellifluously24. She said it, too, with an aplomb25 and an air of conviction that mightily26 tickled27 Algernon, who, remembering the family rumours28 which haunted his childhood, thought that his respected father, if he preferred his wife's society to any other, must have put a considerable constraint29 on his inclinations30, not to say sacrificed them altogether to the claims of a convivial31 circle of friends. "The dear old lady is as good as a play!" thought he. Indeed, he thoroughly32 relished33 this bit of domestic comedy.
"But then," proceeded Mrs. Errington, as she rang the bell to order tea, "I have not the vanity to suppose that he would have done so without the exercise of some little care and tact34 on my part. Tact, my dear Castalia—tact is the most precious gift a wife can bring to the domestic circle. But the Ancrams always had enormous tact—Give us some tea, if you please, Mrs. Thimbleby, and be careful that the water boils—proverbial for it, in fact!"
Algernon thought it time to come to the rescue. He did not choose his comfort to be destroyed by a passage of arms between his mother and his wife, so he deftly35 turned the conversation to less dangerous topics, and things proceeded peacefully until the tea was served.
"Who was that man that was coming in to the house with us?" asked Castalia, as she sipped36 her tea from one of Mrs. Errington's antique blue and white china cups.
"Would it be Mr. Diamond——? But no; you know him by sight. Or—oh, I suppose it was that Methodist preacher, Powell!"
"Powell! Yes, that was the name—David Powell."
"Most likely. He is in and out at all hours. Really, Algernon, do you know—you remember the fellow, how he used to annoy us at Maxfield's. Well, do you know, I believe he is quite crazy!"
"You have always entertained that opinion, I believe, ma'am."
"Oh, but, my dear boy, I think he is demented in real downright earnest now. I do indeed. I'm sure the things that poor weak-minded Mrs. Thimbleby tells me about him——! He has delusions37 of all kinds; hears voices, sees visions. I should say it is a case of what your father would have called 'melancholy38 madness.' Really, Algy, I frequently think about it. It is quite alarming sometimes in the night if I happen to wake up, to remember that there is a lunatic sleeping overhead. You know he might take it into his head to murder one! Or if he only killed himself—which is perhaps more likely—it would be a highly unpleasant circumstance. I could not possibly remain in the lodgings, you know. Out of the question! And so I told that silly Thimbleby. I said to her, 'Observe, Mrs. Thimbleby, if any dreadful thing happens in this house—a suicide or anything of that sort—I shall leave you at an hour's notice. I wish you well, and I have no desire to withdraw my patronage39 from you, but you could not expect me to look over a coroner's inquest.'"
Algernon threw his head back and laughed heartily40. "That was a fair warning, at any rate!" said he. "And if Mr. David Powell has any consideration for his landlady41, he will profit by it—that is to say, supposing Mrs. Thimbleby tells him of it. What did she say?"
"Oh, she merely cried and whimpered, and hid her face in her apron42. She is terribly weak-minded, poor creature."
Castalia had been listening in silence. All at once she said, "How many miserable43 people there are!"
"Very true, Cassy; provincial44 postmasters and others. And part of my miserable lot is to go down to the office again for an hour to-night."
"My poor boy!" "Go to the office again to-night?" exclaimed his mother and his wife simultaneously45.
"Yes; it is now half-past eight. I have an appointment. At least—I shall be back in an hour, I have no doubt."
Algernon walked off with an air of good-humoured resignation, smiling and shrugging his shoulders. The two women, left alone together, took his departure very differently. Mrs. Errington was majestically46 wrathful with a system of things which involved so much discomfort47 to a scion48 of the house of Ancram. She was of opinion that some strong representations should be made to the ministry49; that Parliament should be appealed to. And she rather enjoyed her own eloquence50, and was led on by it to make some most astounding51 assertions, and utter some scathing52 condemnations with an air of comfortable self-satisfaction. Castalia, on the other hand, remained gloomily taciturn, huddled53 into an easy-chair by the hearth54, and staring fixedly55 at the fire.
It has been recorded in these pages that Mrs. Errington did not much object to silence on the part of her companion for the time being; she only required an assenting56 or admiring interjection now and then, to enable her to carry on what she supposed to be a very agreeable conversation, but she did like her confidante to do that much towards social intercourse57. And she liked, moreover, to see some look of pleasure, interest, or sympathy on the confidante's face. Looking at Castalia's moody58 and abstracted countenance, she could not but remember the gentle listener in whom she had been wont59 for so many years to find a sweet response to all her utterances60.
"Oddly enough," she said, "I have been disappointed of a visitor this evening, and so should have been quite alone if you and Algy had not come in. I had asked Rhoda to spend the evening with me."
Castalia looked round at the sound of that name. "Why didn't she come?" she asked abruptly61.
"Oh, I don't know. She merely said she could not leave home to-night. That old father of hers sometimes takes tyrannical fancies into his head. He has been kinder to dear Rhoda of late, and has treated her more becomingly—chiefly, I believe I may say, owing to my influence, although the old booby chose to quarrel with me—but when he takes a thing into his head he is as obstinate62 as a mule63."
"I don't know about treating her 'becomingly,' but I think she needs some one to look after her and keep her in check."
"Who, Rhoda? My dear Castalia, she is the very sweetest-tempered creature I ever met with in my life; and that is saying a good deal, let me tell you, for the Ancram temper was something quite special. A gift. I don't boast of it, because I believe it was simply constitutional. But such was the fact."
"The girl is dressed up beyond her station. The last time I saw her it was absurd. Scarcely reputable, I should think."
Mrs. Errington by no means liked this attack. Over and above the fact that Rhoda was her pet and her protégée, which would have sufficed to make any animadversions on her appear impertinent, she was genuinely fond of the girl, and answered with some warmth, "I am sure, Castalia, that whatever Rhoda Maxfield might be dressed in, she would look modest and sweet, not to say excessively pretty, for I suppose there cannot be a doubt about that?"
"I thought you were a stickler64 for people keeping to their own station, and not aping their betters!"
"We must distinguish, Castalia. Birth will ever be with me the first consideration. Coming of the race I do, it could not be otherwise. But it is useless to shut one's eyes to the fact that money nowadays will do much. Look at our best families!—families of lineage as good as my own. What do we see? We see them allying themselves with commercial people right and left. Now, there was Miss Pickleham. The way in which she was thrown at Algy's head would surprise you. She had a hundred thousand pounds of her own on the day she married, and expectations of much more on old Picklekam's decease. But I never encouraged the thing. Perhaps I was wrong. However!—she married Sir Peregrine Puffin last season. And the Puffins were in Cornwall before the Conquest."
Castalia shrugged65 her shoulders in undisguised scorn. "All that nonsense is nothing to the purpose," said she, throwing her head back against the cushion of the chair she sat on. Mrs. Errington opened her blue eyes to their widest extent. "Really, Castalia! 'All that nonsense!' You are not very polite."
"I'm sick of all the pretences66, and shams67, and deceptions," returned Castalia, her eyes glittering feverishly68, and her thin fingers twining themselves together with nervous restlessness. "I don't know whether you are made a fool of yourself, or are trying to make a fool of me——"
"Castalia!"
"But, in either case, I am not duped. Your 'sweet Rhoda!' Don't you know that she is an artful, false coquette—perhaps worse!"
"Castalia!"
"Yes, worse. Why should she not be as bad as any other low-bred creature who lures69 on gentlemen to make love to her? Men are such idiots! So false and fickle70! But, though I may be injured and insulted, I will not be laughed at for a dupe."
"Good heavens, Castalia! What does this mean?"
"And I will tell you another thing, if you really are so blind to what goes on, and has been going on, for years: I don't believe Ancram has gone to the post-office to-night at all. I believe he has gone to see Rhoda. It would not be the first time he has deceived me on that score!"
Mrs. Errington sat holding the arms of her easy-chair with both hands, and staring at her daughter-in-law. The poor lady felt as if the world were turned upside down. It was not so long since old Maxfield had astonished her by plainly showing that he thought her of no importance, and choosing to turn her out of his house. And now, here was Castalia conducting herself in a still more amazing manner. Whilst she revolved71 the case in her brain—much confused and bewildered as that organ was—and endeavoured to come to some clear opinion on it, the younger woman got up and walked up and down the room with the restless, aimless, anxious gait of a caged animal.
At length Mrs. Errington slowly nodded her head two or three times, drew a long breath, folded her hands, and, assuming a judicial72 air, spoke73 as follows:
"My dear Castalia! I shall overlook the unbecomingness of certain expressions that you have used towards myself, because I can make allowance for an excited state of feeling. But you must permit me to give you a little advice. Endeavour to control yourself; try to look at things with calmness and judgment74, and you will soon perceive how wrong and foolish your present conduct is. And, moreover, you need not be startled if I have discovered the real motive75 at the bottom of all this display of temper. There never was a member of my family yet who had not a wonderful gift of reading motives76. I'm sure it is nothing to envy us! I have often, for my own part, wished myself as slow of perception as other people, for the truth is not always pleasant. But I must say that I can see one thing very plainly—and that is, that you are most unfortunately and most unreasonably77 giving way to jealousy78! I can see it, Castalia, as plain as possible."
Mrs. Errington had finished her harangue79 with much majesty80, bringing out the closing sentences as if they were a most unexpected and powerful climax81, when the effect of the whole was marred82 by her giving a violent start and exclaiming, with more naturalness than dignity, "Mercy on us! Castalia, what will you do next? Do shut that window, for pity's sake! I shall get my death of cold!"
Castalia had opened the window, and was leaning out of it, regardless of the sleet83 which fell in slanting84 lines and beat against her cheek. "I knew that was his step," she said, speaking, as it seemed, more to herself than to her mother-in-law. "And he has no umbrella, and those light shoes on!" She ran to the fireplace and stirred the fire into a blaze, displaying an activity which was singularly contrasted with her usual languid slowness of movement. "Can't you give him some hot wine and water?" she asked, ringing the bell at the same time. When her husband came in she removed his damp great-coat with her own hands, made him sit down near the fire, and brought him a pair of his mother's slippers85, which were quite sufficiently86 roomy to admit his slender feet. Algernon submitted to be thus cherished and taken care of, declaring, with an amused smile, as he sipped the hot negus, that this fuss was very kind, but entirely87 unnecessary, as he had not been three minutes in the rain.
As to Mrs. Errington, she was so perplexed88 by her daughter-in-law's sudden change of mood and manner, that she lost her presence of mind, and remained gazing from Algernon to his wife very blankly. "I never knew such a thing!" thought the good lady. "One moment she's raging and scolding, and abusing her husband for deceiving her, and the next she is petting him up as if he was a baby!"
When the fly was announced, and Castalia left the little drawing-room to put on her cloak and bonnet89, Mrs. Errington drew near to her son and whispered to him solemnly, "Algy, there is something very strange about your wife. I never saw such a changed creature within the last few weeks. Don't you think you should have some one to see her?—some professional person I mean? I fear that her brain is affected90!"
"Good gracious, mother! Another lunatic? You are getting to have a monomania on that subject yourself!" Algernon laughed as he said it.
"My dear, there may be two persons afflicted91 in the same way, may there not? But I said nothing about lunatics, Algy. Only—really, I think some temporary disturbance92 of the brain is going on. I do, indeed."
"Pooh, pooh! Nonsense, ma'am! But it is odd enough that you are the second person who has made that agreeable suggestion to me within a fortnight. Poor Cassy! That's all she gets by her airs and her temper."
"Another person, was there?"
"Yes; it was little Miss Chubb, and——"
"Miss Chubb! Upon my word, I think that Miss Chubb was guilty of taking a considerable liberty in suggesting anything of the kind about the Honourable93 Mrs. Ancram Errington!"
"Oh, I don't know about liberty; but, of course, I laughed at her; and, of course, you will too, if she says anything of the kind to you."
"I shall undoubtedly94 check her pretty severely95 if she attempts anything of the sort with me! Miss Chubb, indeed!"
The consequence was, that Mrs. Errington went about among her Whitford friends elaborately contradicting and denying "the innuendos96 spread abroad about her daughter-in-law by certain presumptuous97 and gossiping persons;" and thus brought the suggestion before many who would not otherwise have heard of it. All which, of course, surprised and annoyed Algernon very much, who had, naturally, not expected anything of the sort from his mother's well-known tact and discretion98.
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