The Outcry

prompt question. “Lord John warned me h

gain time, Lady Sandgate pointed, instead of answering, to the small pic

owever, she made, without alarm, no more of it; she ret

pictures’” Lady Sandgate explained, “

akes care of Lord John, and while you, if you’ll be so good, go back to support father — in the hour of his triumph: whic

s triumph, and whatever I do is at least above board; but if it’s a

dear, I’m not at all the same thing, and as I’m the person in t

hn?”— that was the sense in which the elder woma

n immediately, though very quietly, to correct

— if you’ve talked — wi

same shade of detachment. “Kitty has told me

ays go with what happens — at the moment, amo

she took the case up further on. “What I ca

g watched the girl a moment. She nevertheless presently faced her again to follow this sp

with which she moved away. “I d

sement in the tone of it. “And you’re not disposed to take

— Lady Grace wa

ers of h

agine of some of them. But he means well enough,” the g

out to leave her, another brief ar

ng Mr. Crimble; of whom I’ve spoken to him even if he doesn’t remember, and who bicycles this afternoon ten miles ov

ok it in. “Ah, l

l, I think, li

man some deeper thought “May I ask th

rship — which is upsetting, as perhaps you’re not aware, all the old-fashioned canons of art-criticism, everything we’ve stupidly thought right and held dear; that he was to spend Easter in these parts, and

the rest “And it’s fo

ome in,” the girl as

u sent in ten minutes ago for Lord John to come out to you it was wholly of your own movement?” And sh

nd hesitated s

larly to sp

ere I was,” Lady Grace said after an instan

ou,” Lady Sand-gate asked, “how

If you want to know, I sent for news of him because Kitty insisted on my doing so; saying, so very oddly and quite in her own way, that she herself didn’t wish to ‘appear in it.’ She had done nothing but say to me for an

or Lady Sandgate to remark

ce. She always wants money, in quantities, to begin with — and all to throw so horribly away; so that whenever I s

nd since your mother’s — I can never be too grateful to you, my dear, for your being so different a creature. But what is she going to gain financially

ce —“it will depend on the music he makes!” But she added

e girl assented by silence: “Is he in a pos

ay the Du

that Kitty, as we’re not ignorant, owes her? Hundreds a

nd too wrong!” To which, however, Lady Grace added: “But perhaps that will be just her way!” And

goes free if Lord Joh

goes

r creditor’

ery shi

he onl

e lucid Lady Grace, “she throws her

ed!”— Lady Sandga

oman a sense of excess. “Yes — but he after

dy Sandgate could clearly but wo

e, at some length, she gave back this look and the interchange determined in

with an equal emphasis, indi

a moment “Do you

should convince you, among t

delay. “Well, he’s hi

wouldn’t marr

the more uncomfortably and

optimistically put it, “s

thing; wants me for my father’s so particularly beautiful position, and my mother’s so supremely great people, and fo

d-gate turned as to a genial sun-burst. “I see

riousness, glanced with deprecation at the possibility. “Well,

lasses and with the ends of his trousers clipped together as for cycling. “This must be your friend,” she had only time to say to the daughter of the house; with which, alert and reminded of how she was awaited elsewhere, she retreated before her c