Everard repeated the argument he had used to his cousin.
‘You are quite right,’ Rhoda assented. ‘I think many women deserve to be beaten, and ought to Dame Washington Capitals be beaten. But public Opinion would be so much against you.’
‘What do I care? So is public opinion against you.’
‘Very well. Do as you like. Miss Barfoot and I will come to the police court and give strong evidence in your favour.’
‘Now there’s a woman!’ exclaimed Everard, not all in jest, for Rhoda’s appearance had made his nerves thrill and his pulse beat. ‘Look at her, Mary. Do you wonder that I would walk the diameter of the globe to win her love?’
Rhoda flushed scarlet, and Miss Barfoot was much embarrassed. Neither could have anticipated such an utterance as this. ‘That’s the simple truth,’ went on Everard recklessly, ‘and she knows it, and yet won’t listen to me. Well, good-bye to you both! Now that Tampa Bay Buccaneers Tröjor I have so grossly misbehaved myself, she has a good excuse for Maillot Séville FC Pas CHer refusing even to enter the room when I am here. But do speak a word for me whilst I am away, Mary.’
He shook hands with them, scarcely looking at their faces, and abruptly departed.
The women stood for a moments at a distance from each other. Then As Roma Drakt Barn Miss Barfoot glanced at her friend and laughed.
‘Really my poor cousin is not very discreet.’
‘Anything but,’ Rhoda answered, resting on the back of a Scarpe Nike Zoom chair, her eyes cast down. ‘Do you think he will really cane his sister-inlaw?’
‘How can you ask such a question?’
‘It would be amusing. Scarpe Hogan 2016 Donna I should think better of him for it.’
‘Well, make it a condition. We know the story of the lady and her glove. I can see you sympathize with her.’
Rhoda laughed Maillot Jamaïque Pas CHer and went away, leaving Miss Barfoot with the impression that she had revealed a genuine impulse. It seemed not impossible that Rhoda might wish to say to her lover: ‘Face this monstrous scandal and I am yours.
A week passed and there arrived a letter, with a foreign stamp, addressed to Miss Nunn. Happening to |
