Proof that the scoundrel had risen from the dead—for he was dead to his father! He glared at the female whose appearance in England had revived those painful memories—churning unbearably since Brewis Charvill had brought him the news and put him in the worst of tempers—and the fury spilled out. “We parted— that night the best of friends. “That young man was giving a luncheon party to a dozen friends at the Café de Paris to-day. But the people among whom she was now thrown through the social exertions of Miss Miniver and the Widgetts—for Teddy and Hetty came up from Morningside Park and took her to an eighteen-penny dinner in Soho and introduced her to some art students, who were also Socialists, and so opened the way to an evening of meandering talk in a studio—carried with them like an atmosphere this implication, not only that the world was in some stupid and even obvious way WRONG, with which indeed she was quite prepared to agree, but that it needed only a few pioneers to behave as such and be thoroughly and indiscriminately “advanced,” for the new order to achieve itself. Supposing Ah Cum's luck failed for once? The manager made a gesture of dismissal, and added up the bill for the Misses Jedson, who were returning to Hong-Kong in the morning. I do not say guest because that suggests friendship; and I am no friend of this Wastrel. His stories had enchanted her, even if in some deep corner of her heart she guessed they were not entirely true. All I had to do was to piece them together. And if he won’t—” But she did not give even unspoken words to the alternative at that time. I took the money myself, and ought to know. It would surely be only common politeness to drop her a hint—a fellow countrywoman too. And this damning evidence―’ with a brusque gesture at the portrait ‘―must also be destroyed.
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