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第59章

"I am not so composed as you are.We were an excitable set in my youth--and I haven't got the better of it yet.I feel nervous.Do you hear? I feel nervous.""I am sorry, Lady Janet."

"You are very good.Do you know what I am going to do?""No, Lady Janet."

"I am going to summon the household.When I say the household, I mean the men; the women are no use.I am afraid I fail to attract your attention?""You have my best attention, Lady Janet.""You are very good again.I said the women were of no use.""Yes, Lady Janet."

"I mean to place a man-servant on guard at every entrance to the house.I am going to do it at once.Will you come with me?""Can I be of any use if I go with your ladyship?""You can't be of the slightest use.I give the orders in this house--not you.I had quite another motive in asking you to come with me.I am more considerate of you than you seem to think--I don't like leaving you here by yourself.Do you understand?

"I am much obliged to your ladyship.I don't mind being left here by myself.""You don't mind? I never heard of such heroism in my life--out of a novel! Suppose that crazy wretch should find her way in here?""She would not frighten me this time as she frightened me before.""Not too fast, my young lady! Suppose--Good heavens! now I think of it, there is the conservatory.Suppose she should be hidden in there? Julian is searching the grounds.Who is to search the conservatory?""With your ladyship's permission, I will search the conservatory.""You!!!"

"With your ladyship's permission."

"I can hardly believe my own ears! Well, 'Live and learn' is an old proverb.I thought I knew your character.This is a change!""You forget, Lady Janet (if I may venture to say so), that the circumstances are changed.She took me by surprise on the last occasion; I am prepared for her now.""Do you really feel as coolly as you speak?""Yes, Lady Janet."

"Have your own way, then.I shall do one thing, however, in case of your having overestimated your own courage.I shall place one of the men in the library.You will only have to ring for him if anything happens.He will give the alarm--and I shall act accordingly.I have my plan," said her Ladyship, comfortably conscious of the card in her pocket."Don't look the ordeal of the confession.She was not only anxious--she was impatient for Julian's return.Before she slept that night Julian's confidence in her should be a confidence that she had deserved.

"Let her own the truth, without the base fear of discovery to drive her to it.Let her do justice to the woman whom she has wronged, while that woman is still powerless to expose her.Let her sacrifice everything that she has gained by the fraud to the sacred duty of atonement.If she can do that, then her repentance has nobly revealed the noble nature that is in her; then she is a woman to be trusted, respected, beloved." Those words were as vividly present to her as if she still heard them falling from his lips.Those other words which had followed them rang as grandly as ever in her ears: "Rise, poor wounded heart! Beautiful, purified soul, God's angels rejoice over you! Take your place among the noblest of God's creatures!" Did the woman live who could hear Julian Gray say that, and who could hesitate, at any sacrifice, at any loss, to justify his belief in her? "Oh!" she thought, longingly while her eyes followed Lady Janet to the end of the library, "if your worst fears could only be realized! If I could only see Grace Roseberry in this room, how fearlessly I could meet her now!"She closed the library door, while Lady Janet opened the other door which led into the hall.

As she turned and looked back into the dining-room a cry of astonishment escaped her.

There--as if in answer to the aspiration which was still in her mind; there, established in triumph on the chair that she had just left--sat Grace Roseberry, in sinister silence, waiting for her.

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