“Yes. You don't want people to snub you later. Only that I was prevented by one of those soldiers that caught me in the big house. He had bled everywhere, but she had struck when the opportunity was ripe. The candles—for McClintock never used oil in his dining room—were burning low in the sconces. She was to see Capes to-morrow, but now, in this state of misery she had achieved, she felt assured he would turn his back upon her, take no notice of her at all. I didn’t! I didn’t! After all—” For a time her mind ran on daintiness and its defensive restraints as though it was the one desirable thing. She had tried him as a Crusader, in which guise he seemed plausible but heavy—“There IS something heavy about him; I wonder if it’s his mustache?”—and as a Hussar, which made him preposterous, and as a Black Brunswicker, which was better, and as an Arab sheik. ’ ‘Well, don’t bite my head off,’ protested Mrs Sindlesham, clearly amused. They began the evening like usual, driving down highways and byways. You ought to know that. The steps, even the pavements, were invaded by little knots of loungers driven outside by the unusual heat of the evening, most of them in evening dress, or what passed for evening dress in Montague Street. He wondered if the young fool had any idea of what he had drawn in this tragic lottery called marriage.
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