Records a Visit to Diana from One of the World’s Good Women
Pure disengagement of contemplativeness had selected. Percy Dacier as the model of her YOUNG MINISTER OF STATE, Diana supposed. Could she otherwise have dared to sketch1 him? She certainly would not have done it now.
That was a reflection similar to what is entertained by one who has dropped from a precipice2 to the midway ledge3 over the abyss, where caution of the whole sensitive being is required for simple self-preservation. How could she have been induced to study and portray4 him! It seemed a form of dementia.
She thought this while imagining the world to be interrogating5 her. When she interrogated6 herself, she flew to Lugano and her celestial7 Salvatore, that she might be defended from a charge of the dreadful weakness of her sex. Surely she there had proof of her capacity for pure disengagement. Even in recollection the springs of spiritual happiness renewed the bubbling crystal play. She believed that a divineness had wakened in her there, to strengthen her to the end, ward8 her from any complicity in her sex’s culprit blushing.
Dacier’s cry of her name was the cause, she chose to think, of the excessive circumspection9 she must henceforth practise; precariously10 footing, embracing hardest earth, the plainest rules, to get back to safety. Not that she was personally endangered, or at least not spiritually; she could always fly in soul to her heights. But she had now to be on guard, constantly in the fencing attitude. And watchful11 of herself as well. That was admitted with a ready frankness, to save it from being a necessitated12 and painful confession13: for the voluntary-acquiescence, if it involved her in her sex, claimed an individual exemption14. ‘Women are women, and I am a woman but I am I, and unlike them: I see we are weak, and weakness tempts15: in owning the prudence16 of guarded steps, I am armed. It is by dissembling, feigning17 immunity18, that we are imperilled.’ She would have phrased it so, with some anger at her feminine nature as well as at the subjection forced on her by circumstances.
Besides, her position and Percy Dacier’s threw the fancied danger into remoteness. The world was her stepmother, vigilant19 to become her judge; and the world was his taskmaster, hopeful of him, yet able to strike him down for an offence. She saw their situation as he did. The course of folly20 must be bravely taken, if taken at all: Disguise degraded her to the reptiles21.
This was faced. Consequently there was no fear of it.
She had very easily proved that she had skill and self-possession to keep him rational, and therefore they could continue to meet. A little outburst of frenzy22 to a reputably handsome woman could be treated as the froth of a passing wave. Men have the trick, infants their fevers.
Diana’s days were spent in reasoning. Her nights were not so tuneable to the superior mind. When asleep she was the sport of elves that danced her into tangles23 too deliciously unravelled24, and left new problems for the wise-eyed and anxious morning. She solved them with the thought that in sleep it was the mere25 ordinary woman who fell a prey26 to her tormentors; awake, she dispersed27 the swarm28, her sky was clear. Gradually the persecution29 ceased, thanks to her active pen.
A letter from her legal adviser30, old Mr. Braddock, informed her that no grounds existed for apprehending31 marital32 annoyance33, and late in May her household had resumed its customary round.
She examined her accounts. The Debit34 and Credit sides presented much of the appearance of male and female in our jog-trot35 civilization. They matched middling well; with rather too marked a tendency to strain the leash36 and run frolic on the part of friend Debit (the wanton male), which deepened the blush of the comparison. Her father had noticed the same funny thing in his effort to balance his tugging37 accounts: ‘Now then for a look at Man and Wife’: except that he made Debit stand for the portly frisky38 female, Credit the decorous and contracted other half, a prim39 gentleman of a constitutionally lean habit of body, remonstrating40 with her. ‘You seem to forget that we are married, my dear, and must walk in step or bundle into the Bench,’ Dan Merion used to say.
Diana had not so much to rebuke41 in Mr. Debit; or not at the first reckoning. But his ways were curious. She grew distrustful of him, after dismissing him with a quiet admonition and discovering a series of ambush42 bills, which he must have been aware of when he was allowed to pass as an honourable43 citizen. His answer to her reproaches pleaded the necessitousness of his purchases and expenditure44: a capital plea; and Mrs. Credit was requested by him, in a courteous45 manner, to drive her pen the faster, so that she might wax to a corresponding size and satisfy the world’s idea of fitness in couples. She would have costly46 furniture, because it pleased her taste; and a French cook, for a like reason, in justice to her guests; and trained servants; and her tribe of pensioners47; flowers she would have profuse48 and fresh at her windows and over the rooms; and the pictures and engravings on the walls were (always for the good reason mentioned) choice ones; and she had a love of old lace, she loved colours as she loved cheerfulness, and silks, and satin hangings, Indian ivory carvings49, countless50 mirrors, Oriental woods, chairs and desks with some feature or a flourish in them, delicate tables with antelope51 legs, of approved workmanship in the chronology of European upholstery, and marble clocks of cunning device to symbol Time, mantelpiece decorations, illustrated52 editions of her favourite authors; her bed-chambers, too, gave the nest for sleep a dainty cosiness53 in aerial draperies. Hence, more or less directly, the peccant bills. Credit was reduced to reckon to a nicety the amount she could rely on positively54: her fixed55 income from her investments and the letting of The Crossways: the days of half-yearly payments that would magnify her to some proportions beside the alarming growth of her partner, who was proud of it, and referred her to the treasures she could summon with her pen, at a murmur56 of dissatisfaction. His compliments were sincere; they were seductive. He assured her that she had struck a rich vein57 in an inexhaustible mine; by writing only a very little faster she could double her income; counting a broader popularity, treble it; and so on a tide of success down the widening river to a sea sheer golden. Behold58 how it sparkles! Are we then to stint59 our winged hours of youth for want of courage to realize the riches we can command? Debit was eloquent60, he was unanswerable.
Another calculator, an accustomed and lamentably-scrupulous arithmetician, had been at work for some time upon a speculative61 summing of the outlay62 of Diana’s establishment, as to its chances of swamping the income. Redworth could guess pretty closely the cost of a house hold, if his care for the holder63 set him venturing on aver64 ages. He knew nothing of her ten per cent. investment and considered her fixed income a beggarly regiment65 to marshal against the invader66. He fancied however, in his ignorance of literary profits, that a popular writer, selling several editions, had come to an El Dorado. There was the mine. It required a diligent67 worker. Diana was often struck by hearing Redworth ask her when her next book might be expected. He appeared to have an eagerness in hurrying her to produce, and she had to say that she was not a nimble writer. His flattering impatience68 was vexatious. He admired her work, yet he did his utmost to render it little admirable. His literary taste was not that of young Arthur Rhodes, to whom she could read her chapters, appearing to take counsel upon them while drinking the eulogies69: she suspected him of prosaic70 ally wishing her to make money, and though her exchequer71 was beginning to know the need of it, the author’s lofty mind disdained72 such sordidness73: to be excused, possibly, for a failing productive energy. She encountered obstacles to imaginative composition. With the pen in her hand, she would fall into heavy musings; break a sentence to muse74, and not on the subject. She slept unevenly75 at night, was drowsy76 by day, unless the open air was about her, or animating77 friends. Redworth’s urgency to get her to publish was particularly annoying when she felt how greatly THE YOUNG MINISTER OF STATE would have been improved had she retained the work to brood over it, polish, rewrite passages, perfect it. Her musings embraced long dialogues of that work, never printed; they sprang up, they passed from memory; leaving a distaste for her present work: THE CANTATRICE: far more poetical78 than the preceding, in the opinion of Arthur Rhodes; and the story was more romantic; modelled on a Prima Donna she had met at the musical parties of Henry Wilmers, after hearing Redworth tell of Charles Rainer’s quaint79 passion for the woman, or the idea of the woman. Diana had courted her, studied and liked her. The picture she was drawing of the amiable80 and gifted Italian, of her villain81 Roumanian husband, and of the eccentric, high-minded, devoted82 Englishman, was good in a fashion; but considering the theme, she had reasonable apprehension83 that her CANTATRICE would not repay her for the time and labour bestowed84 on it. No clever transcripts85 of the dialogue of the day occurred; no hair-breadth ‘scapes, perils86 by sea and land, heroisms of the hero, fine shrieks87 of the heroine; no set scenes of catching88 pathos89 and humour; no distinguishable points of social satire—equivalent to a smacking90 of the public on the chaps, which excites it to grin with keen discernment of the author’s intention. She did not appeal to the senses nor to a superficial discernment. So she had the anticipatory91 sense of its failure; and she wrote her best, in perverseness92; of course she wrote slowly; she wrote more and more realistically of the characters and the downright human emotions, less of the wooden supernumeraries of her story, labelled for broad guffaw93 or deluge94 tears—the grappling natural links between our public and an author. Her feelings were aloof95. They flowed at a hint of a scene of THE YOUNG MINISTER. She could not put them into THE CANTATRICE. And Arthur Rhodes pronounced this work poetical beyond its predecessors96, for the reason that the chief characters were alive and the reader felt their pulses. He meant to say, they were poetical inasmuch as they were creations.
The slow progress of a work not driven by the author’s feelings necessitated frequent consultations97 between Debit and Credit, resulting in altercations98, recriminations, discord99 of the yoked100 and divergent couple. To restore them to their proper trot in harness, Diana reluctantly went to her publisher for an advance item of the sum she was to receive, and the act increased her distaste. An idea came that she would soon cease to be able to write at all. What then? Perhaps by selling her invested money, and ultimately The Crossways, she would have enough for her term upon earth. Necessarily she had to think that short, in order to reckon it as nearly enough. ‘I am sure,’ she said to herself, ‘I shall not trouble the world very long.’ A strange languor101 beset102 her; scarcely melancholy103, for she conceived the cheerfulness of life and added to it in company; but a nervelessness, as though she had been left by the stream on the banks, and saw beauty and pleasure sweep along and away, while the sun that primed them dried her veins104. At this time she was gaining her widest reputation for brilliancy of wit. Only to welcome guests were her evenings ever spent at home. She had no intimate understanding of the deadly wrestle105 of the conventional woman with her nature which she was undergoing below the surface. Perplexities she acknowledged, and the prudence of guardedness. ‘But as I am sure not to live very long, we may as well meet.’ Her meetings with Percy Dacier were therefore hardly shunned106; and his behaviour did not warn her to discountenance them. It would have been cruel to exclude him from her select little dinners of eight. Whitmonby, Westlake, Henry Wilmers and the rest, she perhaps aiding, schooled him in the conversational107 art. She heard it said of him, that the courted discarder of the sex, hitherto a mere politician, was wonderfully humanized. Lady Pennon fell to talking of him hopefully. She declared him to be one of the men who unfold tardily108, and only await the mastering passion. If the passion had come, it was controlled. His command of himself melted Diana. How could she forbid his entry to the houses she frequented? She was glad to see him. He showed his pleasure in seeing her. Remembering his tentative indiscretion on those foreign sands, she reflected that he had been easily checked: and the like was not to be said of some others. Beautiful women in her position provoke an intemperateness109 that contrasts touchingly110 with the self-restraint of a particular admirer. Her ‘impassioned Caledonian’ was one of a host, to speak of whom and their fits of lunacy even to her friend Emma, was repulsive111. She bore with them, foiled them, passed them, and recovered her equanimity112; but the contrast called to her to dwell on it, the self-restraint whispered of a depth of passion....
She was shocked at herself for a singular tremble ‘she experienced, without any beating of the heart, on hearing one day that the marriage of Percy Dacier and Miss Asper was at last definitely fixed. Mary Paynham brought her the news. She had it from a lady who had come across Miss Asper at Lady Wathin’s assemblies, and considered the great heiress extraordinarily113 handsome.
‘A golden miracle,’ Diana gave her words to say. ‘Good looks and gold together are rather superhuman. The report may be this time true.’ Next afternoon the card of Lady Wathin requested Mrs. Warwick to grant her a private interview.
Lady Wathin, as one of the order of women who can do anything in a holy cause, advanced toward Mrs. Warwick, unabashed by the burden of her mission, and spinally114 prepared, behind benevolent115 smilings, to repay dignity of mien116 with a similar erectness117 of dignity. They touched fingers and sat. The preliminaries to the matter of the interview were brief between ladies physically118 sensible of antagonism119 and mutually too scornful of subterfuges120 in one another’s presence to beat the bush.
Lady Wathin began. ‘I am, you are aware, Mrs. Warwick, a cousin of your friend Lady Dunstane.’
‘You come to me on business?’ Diana said.
‘It may be so termed. I have no personal interest in it. I come to lay certain facts before you which I think you should know. We think it better that an acquaintance, and one of your sex, should state the case to you, instead of having recourse to formal intermediaries, lawyers—’
‘Lawyers?’
‘Well, my husband is a lawyer, it is true. In the course of his professional vocations121 he became acquainted with Mr. Warwick. We have latterly seen a good deal of him. He is, I regret to say, seriously unwell.’
‘I have heard of it.’
‘He has no female relations, it appears. He needs more care than he can receive from hirelings.’
‘Are you empowered by him, Lady Wathin?’
‘I am, Mrs. Warwick. We will not waste time in apologies. He is most anxious for a reconciliation122. It seems to Sir Cramborne and to me the most desireable thing for all parties concerned, if you can be induced to regard it in that light. Mr. Warwick may or may not live; but the estrangement123 is quite undoubtedly124 the cause of his illness. I touch on nothing connected with it. I simply wish that you should not be in ignorance of his proposal and his condition.’
Diana bowed calmly. ‘I grieve at his condition. His proposal has already been made and replied to.’
‘Oh, but, Mrs. Warwick, an immediate125 and decisive refusal of a proposal so fraught126 with consequences...!’
‘Ah, but, Lady Wathin, you are now outstepping the limits prescribed by the office you have undertaken.’
‘You will not lend ear to an intercession?’
‘I will not.’
‘Of course, Mrs. Warwick, it is not for me to hint at things that lawyers could say on the subject.’
‘Your forbearance is creditable, Lady Wathin.’
‘Believe me, Mrs. Warwick, the step is—I speak in my husband’s name as well as my own—strongly to be advised.’
‘If I hear one word more of it, I leave the country.’
‘I should be sorry indeed at any piece of rashness depriving your numerous friends of your society. We have recently become acquainted with Mr. Redworth, and I know the loss you would be to them. I have not attempted an appeal to your feelings, Mrs. Warwick.’
‘I thank you warmly, Lady Wathin, for what you have not done.’
The aristocratic airs of Mrs. Warwick were annoying to Lady Wathin when she considered that they were borrowed, and that a pattern morality could regard the woman as ostracized127: nor was it agreeable to be looked at through eyelashes under partially128 lifted brows. She had come to appeal to the feelings of the wife; at any rate, to discover if she had some and was better than a wild adventuress.
‘Our life below is short!’ she said. To which Diana tacitly assented129.
‘We have our little term, Mrs. Warwick. It is soon over.’
‘On the other hand, the platitudes130 concerning it are eternal.’
Lady Wathin closed her eyes, that the like effect might be produced on her ears. ‘Ah! they are the truths. But it is not my business to preach. Permit me to say that I feel deeply for your husband.’
‘I am glad of Mr. Warwick’s having friends; and they are many, I hope.’
‘They cannot behold him perishing, without an effort on his behalf.’
A chasm131 of silence intervened. Wifely pity was not sounded in it.
‘He will question me, Mrs. Warwick.’
‘You can report to him the heads of our conversation, Lady Wathin.’
‘Would you—it is your husband’s most earnest wish; and our house is open to his wife and to him for the purpose; and it seems to us that... indeed it might avert132 a catastrophe133 you would necessarily deplore:—would you consent to meet him at my house?’
‘It has already been asked, Lady Wathin, and refused.’
‘But at my house-under our auspices134!’
Diana glanced at the clock. ‘Nowhere.’
‘Is it not—pardon me—a wife’s duty, Mrs. Warwick, at least to listen?’
‘Lady Wathin, I have listened to you.’
‘In the case of his extreme generosity135 so putting it, for the present, Mrs. Warwick, that he asks only to be heard personally by his wife! It may preclude136 so much.’
Diana felt a hot wind across her skin.
She smiled and said: ‘Let me thank you for bringing to an end a mission that must have been unpleasant to you.’
‘But you will meditate137 on it, Mrs. Warwick, will you not? Give me that assurance!’
‘I shall not forget it,’ said Diana.
Again the ladies touched fingers, with an interchange of the social grimace138 of cordiality. A few words of compassion139 for poor Lady Dunstane’s invalided140 state covered Lady Wathin’s retreat.
She left, it struck her ruffled141 sentiments, an icy libertine142, whom any husband caring for his dignity and comfort was well rid of; and if only she could have contrived143 allusively144 to bring in the name of Mr. Percy Dacier, just to show these arrant145 coquettes, or worse, that they were not quite so privileged to pursue their intrigues146 obscurely as they imagined, it would have soothed147 her exasperation148.
She left a woman the prey of panic.
Diana thought of Emma and Redworth, and of their foolish interposition to save her character and keep her bound. She might now have been free! The struggle with her manacles reduced her to a state of rebelliousness149, from which issued vivid illuminations of the one means of certain escape; an abhorrent150 hissing151 cavern152, that led to a place named Liberty, her refuge, but a hectic153 place.
Unable to write, hating the house which held her a fixed mark for these attacks, she had an idea of flying straight to her beloved Lugano lake, and there hiding, abandoning her friends, casting off the slave’s name she bore, and living free in spirit. She went so far as to reckon the cost of a small household there, and justify154 the violent step by an exposition of retrenchment155 upon her large London expenditure. She had but to say farewell to Emma, no other tie to cut! One morning on the Salvatore heights would wash her clear of the webs defacing and entangling156 her.
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catching
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perverseness
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