arenot
of
a
personal
nature
at
all
;
but
they
are
amply
sufficient
for
myself
.
”
“
No
doubt
,
no
doubt
.
”
Mr.
Tulkinghorn
is
as
imperturbable
as
the
hearthstone
to
which
he
has
quietly
walked
.
“
The
matter
is
not
of
that
consequence
that
I
need
put
you
to
the
trouble
of
making
any
conditions
,
Mr.
Guppy
.
”
He
pauses
here
to
smile
,
and
his
smile
is
as
dull
and
rusty
as
his
pantaloons
.
“
You
are
to
be
congratulated
,
Mr.
Guppy
;
you
are
a
fortunate
young
man
,
sir
.
”
“
Pretty
well
so
,
Mr.
Tulkinghorn
;
I
do
n't
complain
.
”
“
Complain
?
High
friends
,
free
admission
to
great
houses
,
and
access
to
elegant
ladies
!
Why
,
Mr.
Guppy
,
there
are
people
in
London
who
would
give
their
ears
to
be
you
.
”
Mr.
Guppy
,
looking
as
if
he
would
give
his
own
reddening
and
still
reddening
ears
to
be
one
of
those
people
at
present
instead
of
himself
,
replies
,
“
Sir
,
if
I
attend
to
my
profession
,
and
do
what
is
right
by
Kenge
and
Carboy
,
my
friends
and
acquaintances
are
of
no
consequence
to
them
,
nor
to
any
member
of
the
profession
,
not
excepting
Mr.
Tulkinghorn
of
the
Fields
.
I
am
not
under
any
obligation
to
explain
myself
further
;
and
with
all
respect
for
you
,
sir
,
and
without
offence
—
I
repeat
,
without
offence
—
”
“
Oh
,
certainly
!
”
“
—
I
do
n't
intend
to
do
it
.
”
“
Quite
so
,
”
says
Mr.
Tulkinghorn
,
with
a
calm
nod
.
“
Very
good
:
I
see
by
these
portraits
that
you
take
a
strong
interest
in
the
fashionable
great
,
sir
?
”
He
addresses
this
to
the
astounded
Tony
,
who
admits
the
soft
impeachment
.
“
A
virtue
in
which
few
Englishmen
are
deficient
,
”
observes
Mr.
Tulkingdom
.
He
has
been
standing
on
the
hearthstone
,
with
his
back
to
the
smoked
chimney-piece
,
and
now
turns
round
,
with
his
glasses
to
his
eyes
.
“
Who
is
this
?
‘Lady
Dedlock.’
Ha
!
A
very
good
likeness
in
its
way
,
but
it
wants
force
of
character
.
Good
day
to
you
,
gentlemen
;
good
day
!
”
When
he
has
walked
out
,
Mr.
Guppy
,
in
a
great
perspiration
,
nerves
himself
to
the
hasty
completion
of
the
taking
down
of
the
Galaxy
Gallery
,
concluding
with
Lady
Dedlock
.
“
Tony
,
”
he
says
hurriedly
to
his
astonished
companion
,
“
let
us
be
quick
in
putting
the
things
together
,
and
in
getting
out
of
this
place
.
It
were
in
vain
longer
to
conceal
from
you
,
Tony
,
that
between
myself
and
one
of
the
members
of
a
swanlike
aristocracy
whom
I
now
hold
in
my
hand
,
there
has
been
undivulged
communication
and
association
.
The
time
might
have
been
,
when
I
might
have
revealed
it
to
you
.
It
never
will
be
more
.
It
is
due
alike
to
the
oath
I
have
taken
,
alike
to
the
shattered
idol
,
and
alike
to
circumstances
over
which
I
have
no
control
,
that
the
ole
should
be
buried
in
oblivion
.
I
charge
you
as
a
friend
,
by
the
interest
you
have
ever
testified
in
the
fashionable
intelligence
,
and
by
any
little
advances
with
which
I
may
have
been
able
to
accommodate
you
,
so
to
bury
it
without
a
word
of
inquiry
!
”
This
charge
Mr.
Guppy
delivers
in
a
state
little
short
of
forensic
lunacy
,
while
his
friend
shows
a
dazed
mind
in
his
whole
head
of
hair
,
and
even
in
his
cultivated
whiskers
.
CHAPTER
XL
.
NATIONAL
AND
DOMESTIC
.
ENGLAND
has
been
in
a
dreadful
state
for
some
weeks
.
Lord
Coodle
would
go
out
,
Sir
Thomas
Doodle
would
n't
come
in
,
and
there
being
nobody
in
Great
Britain
(
to
speak
of
)
except
Coodle
and
Doodle
,
there
has
been
no
Government
.
It
is
a
mercy
that
the
hostile
meeting
between
those
two
great
men
,
which
at
one
time
seemed
inevitable
,
did
not
come
off
;
because
if
both
pistols
had
taken
effect
,
and
Coodle
and
Doodle
had
killed
each
other
,
it
is
to
be
presumed
that
England
must
have
waited
to
be
governed
until
young
Coodle
and
young
Doodle
,
now
in
frocks
and
long
stockings
,
were
grown
up
.
This
stupendous
national
calamity
,
however
,
was
averted
by
Lord
Coodle
's
making
the
timely
discovery
,
that
if
in
the
heat
of
debate
he
had
said
that
he
scorned
and
despised
the
whole
ignoble
career
of
Sir
Thomas
Doodle
,
he
had
merely
meant
to
say
that
party
differences
should
never
induce
him
to
withhold
from
it
the
tribute
of
his
warmest
admiration
;
while
it
as
opportunely
turned
out
,
on
the
other
hand
,
that
Sir
Thomas
Doodle
had
in
his
own
bosom
expressly
booked
Lord
Coodle
to
go
down
to
posterity
as
the
mirror
of
virtue
and
honor
.
Still
England
has
been
some
weeks
in
the
dismal
strait
of
having
no
pilot
(
as
was
well
observed
by
Sir
Leicester
Dedlock
)
to
weather
the
storm
;
and
the
marvellous
part
of
the
matter
is
,
that
England
has
not
appeared
to
care
very
much
about
it
,
but
has
gone
on
eating
and
drinking
and
marrying
and
giving
in
marriage
,
as
the
old
world
did
in
the
days
before
the
flood
.
But
Coodle
knew
the
danger
,
and
Doodle
knew
the
danger
,
and
all
their
followers
and
hangers-on
had
the
clearest
possible
perception
of
the
danger
.
At
last
Sir
Thomas
Doodle
has
not
only
condescended
to
come
in
,
but
has
done
it
handsomely
,
bringing
in
with
him
all
his
nephews
,
all
his
male
cousins
,
and
all
his
brothers-in-law
.
So
there
is
hope
for
the
old
ship
yet
.
Doodle
has
found
that
he
must
throw
himself
upon
the
country
—
chiefly
in
the
form
of
sovereigns
and
beer
.
In
this
metamorphosed
state
he
is
available
in
a
good
many
places
simultaneously
,
and
can
throw
himself
upon
a
considerable
portion
of
the
country
at
one
time
.
Britannia
being
much
occupied
in
pocketing
Doodle
in
the
form
of
sovereigns
,
and
swallowing
Doodle
in
the
form
of
beer
,
and
in
swearing
herself
black
in
the
face
that
she
does
neither
—
plainly
to
the
advancement
of
her
glory
and
morality
—
the
London
season
comes
to
a
sudden
end
,
through
all
the
Doodleites
and
Coodleites
dispersing
to
assist
Britannia
in
those
religious
exercises
.
Hence
Mrs.
Rouncewell
housekeeper
at
Chesney
Wold
foresees
,
though
no
instructions
have
yet
come
down
,
that
the
family
may
shortly
be
expected
,
together
with
a
pretty
large
accession
of
cousins
and
others
who
can
in
any
way
assist
the
great
Constitutional
work
.
And
hence
the
stately
old
dame
,
taking
Time
by
the
forelock
,
leads
him
up
and
down
the
staircases
,
and
along
the
galleries
and
passages
and
through
the
rooms
,
to
witness
before
he
grows
any
older
that
everything
is
ready
;
that
floors
are
rubbed
bright
,
carpets
spread
,
curtains
shaken
out
,
beds
puffed
and
patted
,
still-room
and
kitchen
cleared
for
action
,
all
things
prepared
as
beseems
the
Dedlock
dignity
.
This
present
summer
evening
,
as
the
sun
goes
down
,
the
preparations
are
complete
.
Dreary
and
solemn
the
old
house
looks
,
with
so
many
appliances
of
habitation
,
and
with
no
inhabitants
except
the
pictured
forms
upon
the
walls
.
So
did
these
come
and
go
,
a
Dedlock
in
possession
might
have
ruminated
passing
along
;
so
did
they
see
this
gallery
hushed
and
quiet
,
as
I
see
it
now
;
so
think
,
as
I
think
,
of
the
gap
that
they
would
make
in
this
domain
when
they
were
gone
;
so
find
it
,
as
I
find
it
,
difficult
to
believe
that
it
could
be
,
without
them
;
so
pass
from
my
world
,
as
I
pass
from
theirs
,
now
closing
the
reverberating
door
;
so
leave
no
blank
to
miss
them
,
and
so
die
.
Through
some
of
the
fiery
windows
,
beautiful
from
without
,
and
set
,
at
this
sunset
hour
,
not
in
dull
grey
stone
but
in
a
glorious
house
of
gold
,
the
light
excluded
at
other
windows
pours
in
,
rich
,
lavish
,
overflowing
like
the
summer
plenty
in
the
land
.
Then
do
the
frozen
Dedlocks
thaw
.
Strange
movements
come
upon
their
features
,
as
the
shadows
of
leaves
play
there
.
A
dense
Justice
in
a
corner
is
beguiled
into
a
wink
.
A
staring
Baronet
,
with
a
truncheon
,
gets
a
dimple
in
his
chin
.
Down
into
the
bosom
of
a
stony
shepherdess
there
steals
a
fleck
of
light
and
warmth
,
that
would
have
done
it
good
,
a
hundred
years
ago
.
One
ancestress
of
Volumnia
,
in
high-heeled
shoes
,
very
like
her
—
casting
the
shadow
of
that
virgin
event
before
her
full
two
centuries
—
shoots
out
into
a
halo
and
becomes
a
saint
.
A
maid
of
honor
of
the
court
of
Charles
the
Second
,
with
large
round
eyes
(
and
other
charms
to
correspond
)
,
seems
to
bathe
in
glowing
water
,
and
it
ripples
as
it
glows
.
But
the
fire
of
the
sun
is
dying
.
Even
now
the
floor
is
dusky
,
and
shadow
slowly
mounts
the
walls
,
bringing
the
Dedlocks
down
like
age
and
death
.
And
now
,
upon
my
lady
's
picture
over
the
great
chimney-piece
,
a
weird
shade
falls
from
some
old
tree
,
that
turns
it
pale
,
and
flutters
it
,
and
looks
as
if
a
great
arm
held
a
veil
or
hood
,
watching
an
opportunity
to
draw
it
over
her
.
Higher
and
darker
rises
shadow
on
the
wall
—
now
a
red
gloom
on
the
ceiling
—
now
the
fire
is
out
.
All
that
prospect
,
which
from
the
terrace
looked
so
near
,
has
moved
solemnly
away
,
and
changed
—
not
the
first
nor
the
last
of
beautiful
things
that
look
so
near
and
will
so
change
—
into
a
distant
phantom
.
Light
mists
arise
,
and
the
dew
falls
,
and
all
the
sweet
scents
in
the
garden
are
heavy
in
the
air
.
Now
,
the
woods
settle
into
great
masses
as
if
they
were
each
one
profound
tree
.
And
now
the
moon
rises
,
to
separate
them
,
and
to
glimmer
here
and
there
in
horizontal
lines
behind
their
stems
,
and
to
make
the
avenue
a
pavement
of
light
among
high
cathedral
arches
fantastically
broken
.
Now
,
the
moon
is
high
;
and
the
great
house
,
needing
habitation
more
than
ever
,
is
like
a
body
without
life
.
Now
,
it
is
even
awful
,
stealing
through
it
,
to
think
of
the
live
people
who
have
slept
in
the
solitary
bed-rooms
:
to
say
nothing
of
the
dead
.
Now
is
the
time
for
shadow
,
when
every
corner
is
a
cavern
,
and
every
downward
step
a
pit
,
when
the
stained
glass
is
reflected
in
pale
and
faded
hues
upon
the
floors
,
when
anything
and
everything
can
be
made
of
the
heavy
staircase
beams
excepting
their
own
proper
shapes
,
when
the
armour
has
dull
lights
upon
it
not
easily
to
be
distinguished
from
stealthy
movement
,
and
when
barred
helmets
are
frightfully
suggestive
of
heads
inside
.
But
,
of
all
the
shadows
in
Chesney
Wold
,
the
shadow
in
the
long
drawing-room
upon
my
lady
's
picture
is
the
first
to
come
,
the
last
to
be
disturbed
.
At
this
hour
and
by
this
light
it
changes
into
threatening
hands
raised
up
,
and
menacing
the
handsome
face
with
every
breath
that
stirs
.
“
She
is
not
well
,
ma'am
,
”
says
a
groom
in
Mrs.
Rouncewell
's
audience-chamber
.
“
My
Lady
not
well
?
What
's
the
matter
?
”
“
Why
,
my
Lady
has
been
but
poorly
,
ma'am
,
since
she
was
last
here
—
I
do
n't
mean
with
the
family
,
ma'am
,
but
when
she
was
here
as
a
bird
of
passage-like
.
My
Lady
has
not
been
out
much
,
for
her
,
and
has
kept
her
room
a
good
deal
.
”
“
Chesney
Wold
,
Thomas
,
”
rejoins
the
housekeeper
,
with
proud
complacency
,
“
will
set
my
Lady
up
!
There
is
no
finer
air
,
and
no
healthier
soil
,
in
the
world
!
”
Thomas
may
have
his
own
personal
opinions
on
this
subject
;
probably
hints
them
,
in
his
manner
of
smoothing
his
sleek
head
from
the
nape
of
his
neck
to
his
temples
;
but
he
forbears
to
express
them
further
,
and
retires
to
the
servants
'
hall
to
regale
on
cold
meat-pie
and
ale
.
This
groom
is
the
pilot-fish
before
the
nobler
shark
.
Next
evening
,
down
come
Sir
Leicester
and
my
Lady
with
their
largest
retinue
,
and
down
come
the
cousins
and
others
from
all
the
points
in
the
compass
.
Thenceforth
for
some
weeks
,
backward
and
forward
rush
mysterious
men
with
no
names
,
who
fly
about
all
those
particular
parts
of
the
country
on
which
Doodle
is
at
present
throwing
himself
in
an
auriferous
and
malty
shower
,
but
who
are
merely
persons
of
a
restless
disposition
and
never
do
anything
anywhere
.
On
these
national
occasions
,
Sir
Leicester
finds
the
cousins
useful
.
A
better
man
than
the
Honorable
Bob
Stables
to
meet
the
Hunt
at
dinner
,
there
could
not
possibly
be
.
Better
got
up
gentlemen
than
the
other
cousins
,
to
ride
over
to
polling-booths
and
hustings
here
and
there
,
and
show
themselves
on
the
side
of
England
,
it
would
be
hard
to
find
.
Volumnia
is
a
little
dim
,
but
she
is
of
the
true
descent
;
and
there
are
many
who
appreciate
her
sprightly
conversation
,
her
French
conundrums
so
old
as
to
have
become
in
the
cycles
of
time
almost
new
again
,
the
honor
of
taking
the
fair
Dedlock
in
to
dinner
,
or
even
the
privilege
of
her
hand
in
the
dance
.
On
these
national
occasions
,
dancing
may
be
a
patriotic
service
;
and
Volumnia
is
constantly
seen
hopping
about
,
for
the
good
of
an
ungrateful
and
unpensioning
country
.
My
Lady
takes
no
great
pains
to
entertain
the
numerous
guests
,
and
,
being
still
unwell
,
rarely
appears
until
late
in
the
day
.
But
,
at
all
the
dismal
dinners
,
leaden
lunches
,
basilisk
balls
,
and
other
melancholy
pageants
,
her
mere
appearance
is
a
relief
.
As
to
Sir
Leicester
,
he
conceives
it
utterly
impossible
that
any
thing
can
be
wanting
,
in
any
direction
,
by
any
one
who
has
the
good
fortune
to
be
received
under
that
roof
;
and
in
a
state
of
sublime
satisfaction
,
he
moves
among
the
company
,
a
magnificent
refrigerator
.
Daily
the
cousins
trot
through
dust
,
and
canter
over
roadside
turf
,
away
to
hustings
and
polling-booths
(
with
leather
gloves
and
hunting-whips
for
the
counties
,
and
kid
gloves
and
riding-canes
for
the
boroughs
)
,
and
daily
bring
back
reports
on
which
Sir
Leicester
holds
forth
after
dinner
.
Daily
the
restless
men
who
have
no
occupation
in
life
,
present
the
appearance
of
being
rather
busy
.
Daily
,
Volumnia
has
a
little
cousinly
talk
with
Sir
Leicester
on
the
state
of
the
nation
,
from
which
Sir
Leicester
is
disposed
to
conclude
that
Volumnia
is
a
more
reflecting
woman
than
he
had
thought
her
.
“
How
are
we
getting
on
?
”
says
Miss
Volumnia
,
clasping
her
hands
.
“
Are
we
safe
?
”
The
mighty
business
is
nearly
over
by
this
time
,
and
Doodle
will
throw
himself
off
the
country
in
a
few
days
more
.
Sir
Leicester
has
just
appeared
in
the
long
drawing-room
after
dinner
;
a
bright
particular
star
,
surrounded
by
clouds
of
cousins
.
“
Volumnia
,
”
replies
Sir
Leicester
,
who
has
a
list
in
his
hand
,
“
we
are
doing
tolerably
.
”
“
Only
tolerably
!
”
Although
it
is
summer
weather
,
Sir
Leicester
always
has
his
own
particular
fire
in
the
evening
.
He
takes
his
usual
screened
seat
near
it
,
and
repeats
,
with
much
firmness
and
a
little
displeasure
,
as
who
should
say
,
I
am
not
a
common
man
,
and
when
I
say
tolerably
,
it
must
not
be
understood
as
a
common
expression
;
“
Volumnia
,
we
are
doing
tolerably
.
”
“
At
least
there
is
no
opposition
to
you
,
”
Volumnia
asserts
with
confidence
.
“
No
,
Volumnia
.
This
distracted
country
has
lost
its
senses
in
many
respects
,
I
grieve
to
say
,
but
—
”
“
It
is
not
so
mad
as
that
.
I
am
glad
to
hear
it
!
”
Volumnia
's
finishing
the
sentence
restores
her
to
favor
.
Sir
Leicester
,
with
a
gracious
inclination
of
his
head
,
seems
to
say
to
himself
,
“
A
sensible
woman
this
,
on
the
whole
,
though
occasionally
precipitate
.
”
In
fact
,
as
to
this
question
of
opposition
,
the
fair
Dedlock
's
observation
was
superfluous
:
Sir
Leicester
,
on
these
occasions
,
always
delivering
in
his
own
candidateship
,
as
a
kind
of
handsome
wholesale
order
to
be
promptly
executed
.
Two
other
little
seats
that
belong
to
him
,
he
treats
as
retail
orders
of
less
importance
;
merely
sending
down
the
men
,
and
signifying
to
the
tradespeople
,
“
You
will
have
the
goodness
to
make
these
materials
into
two
members
of
parliament
,
and
to
send
them
home
when
done
.
”
“
I
regret
to
say
,
Volumnia
,
that
in
many
places
the
people
have
shown
a
bad
spirit
,
and
that
this
opposition
to
the
Government
has
been
of
a
most
determined
and
most
implacable
description
.
”
“
W-r-retches
!
”
says
Volumnia
.
“
Even
,
”
proceeds
Sir
Leicester
,
glancing
at
the
circumjacent
cousins
on
sofas
and
ottomans
,
“
even
in
many
—
in
fact
,
in
most
—
of
those
places
in
which
the
Government
has
carried
it
against
a
faction
—
”
(
Note
,
by
the
way
,
that
the
Coodleites
are
always
a
faction
with
the
Doodleites
,
and
that
the
Doodleites
occupy
exactly
the
same
position
towards
the
Coodleites
.
)
“
—
Even
in
them
I
am
shocked
,
for
the
credit
of
Englishmen
,
to
be
constrained
to
inform
you
that
the
Party
has
not
triumphed
without
being
put
to
an
enormous
expense
.
Hundreds
,
”
says
Sir
Leicester
,
eyeing
the
cousins
with
increasing
dignity
and
swelling
indignation
,
“
hundreds
of
thousands
of
pounds
!
”
If
Volumnia
have
a
fault
,
it
is
the
fault
of
being
a
trifle
too
innocent
;
seeing
that
the
innocence
which
would
go
extremely
well
with
a
sash
and
tucker
,
is
a
little
out
of
keeping
with
the
rouge
and
pearl
necklace
.
Howbeit
,
impelled
by
innocence
,
she
asks
,
“
What
for
?
”
“
Volumnia
,
”
remonstrates
Sir
Leicester
,
with
his
utmost
severity
.
“
Volumnia
!
”
“
No
,
no
,
I
do
n't
mean
what
for
,
”
cries
Volumnia
,
with
her
favourite
little
scream
.
“
How
stupid
I
am
!
I
mean
what
a
pity
!
”
“
I
am
glad
,
”
returns
Sir
Leicester
,
“
that
you
do
mean
what
a
pity
.
”
Volumnia
hastens
to
express
her
opinion
that
the
shocking
people
ought
to
be
tried
as
traitors
,
and
made
to
support
the
Party
.
“
I
am
glad
,
Volumnia
,
”
repeats
Sir
Leicester
,
unmindful
of
these
mollifying
sentiments
,
“
that
you
do
mean
what
a
pity
.
It
is
disgraceful
to
the
electors
.
But
as
you
,
though
inadvertently
,
and
without
intending
so
unreasonable
a
question
,
asked
me
‘what
for
?
’
let
me
reply
to
you
.
For
necessary
expenses
.
And
I
trust
to
your
good
sense
,
Volumnia
,
not
to
pursue
the
subject
,
here
or
elsewhere
.
”
Sir
Leicester
feels
it
incumbent
on
him
to
observe
a
crushing
aspect
towards
Volumnia
,
because
it
is
whispered
abroad
that
these
necessary
expenses
will
,
in
some
two
hundred
election
petitions
,
be
unpleasantly
connected
with
the
word
bribery
;
and
because
some
graceless
jokers
have
consequently
suggested
the
omission
from
the
Church
service
of
the
ordinary
supplication
in
behalf
of
the
High
Court
of
Parliament
,
and
have
recommended
instead
that
the
prayers
of
the
congregation
be
requested
for
six
hundred
and
fifty-eight
gentlemen
in
a
very
unhealthy
state
.
“
I
suppose
,
”
observes
Volumnia
,
having
taken
a
little
time
to
recover
her
spirits
after
her
late
castigation
,
“
I
suppose
Mr.
Tulkinghorn
has
been
worked
to
death
.
”
“
I
do
n't
know
,
”
says
Sir
Leicester
,
opening
his
eyes
,
“
why
Mr.
Tulkinghorn
should
be
worked
to
death
.
I
do
n't
know
what
Mr.
Tulkinghorn
's
engagements
may
be
.
He
is
not
a
candidate
.
”
Volumnia
had
thought
he
might
have
been
employed
.
Sir
Leicester
could
desire
to
know
by
whom
,
and
what
for
?
Volumnia
,
abashed
again
,
suggests
,
by
Somebody
—
to
advise
and
make
arrangements
.
Sir
Leicester
is
not
aware
that
any
client
of
Mr.
Tulkinghorn
has
been
in
need
of
his
assistance
.
Lady
Dedlock
,
seated
at
an
open
window
with
her
arm
upon
its
cushioned
ledge
and
looking
out
at
the
evening
shadows
falling
on
the
park
,
has
seemed
to
attend
since
the
lawyer
's
name
was
mentioned
.
A
languid
cousin
with
a
moustache
,
in
a
state
of
extreme
debility
,
now
observes
from
his
couch
,
that
—
man
told
him
ya'as'dy
that
Tulkinghorn
had
gone
down
to
t'that
iron
place
t'give
legal
'
pinion
'
bout
something
;
and
that
,
contest
being
over
t'day
,
'
twould
be
highly
jawlly
thing
if
Tulkinghorn
should
pear
with
news
that
Coodle
man
was
floored
.
Mercury
in
attendance
with
coffee
informs
Sir
Leicester
,
hereupon
,
that
Mr.
Tulkinghorn
has
arrived
,
and
is
taking
dinner
.
My
Lady
turns
her
head
inward
for
the
moment
,
then
looks
out
again
as
before
.
Volumnia
is
charmed
to
hear
that
her
Delight
is
come
.
He
is
so
original
,
such
a
stolid
creature
,
such
an
immense
being
for
knowing
all
sorts
of
things
and
never
telling
them
!
Volumnia
is
persuaded
that
he
must
be
a
Freemason
.
Is
sure
he
is
at
the
head
of
a
lodge
,
and
wears
short
aprons
,
and
is
made
a
perfect
Idol
of
,
with
candlesticks
and
trowels
.
These
lively
remarks
the
fair
Dedlock
delivers
in
her
youthful
manner
,
while
making
a
purse
.
“
He
has
not
been
here
once
,
”
she
adds
,
“
since
I
came
.
I
really
had
some
thoughts
of
breaking
my
heart
for
the
inconstant
creature
.
I
had
almost
made
up
my
mind
that
he
was
dead
.
”
It
may
be
the
gathering
gloom
of
evening
,
or
it
may
be
the
darker
gloom
within
herself
,
but
a
shade
is
on
my
Lady
's
face
,
as
if
she
thought
“
I
would
he
were
!
”
“
Mr.
Tulkinghorn
,
”
says
Sir
Leicester
,
“
is
always
welcome
here
,
and
always
discreet
wheresoever
he
is
.
A
very
valuable
person
,
and
deservedly
respected
.
”
The
debilitated
cousin
supposes
he
is
“
'
normously
rich
fler
.
”
“
He
has
a
stake
in
the
country
,
”
says
Sir
Leicester
,
“
I
have
no
doubt
.
He
is
,
of
course
,
handsomely
paid
,
and
he
associates
almost
on
a
footing
of
equality
with
the
highest
society
.
”
Every
body
starts
.
For
a
gun
is
fired
close
by
.
“
Good
gracious
,
what
's
that
!
”
cries
Volumnia
with
her
little
withered
scream
.
“
A
rat
,
”
says
my
Lady
.
“
And
they
have
shot
him
.
”
Enter
Mr.
Tulkinghorn
,
followed
by
Mercuries
with
lamps
and
candles
.
“
No
,
no
,
”
says
Sir
Leicester
,
“
I
think
not
.
My
Lady
,
do
you
object
to
the
twilight
?
”
On
the
contrary
,
my
Lady
prefers
it
.
“
Volumnia
?
”
O
!
nothing
is
so
delicious
to
Volumnia
as
to
sit
and
talk
in
the
dark
!
“
Then
take
them
away
,
”
says
Sir
Leicester
.
“
Tulkinghorn
,
I
beg
your
pardon
.
How
do
you
do
?
”
Mr.
Tulkinghorn
with
his
usual
leisurely
ease
advances
,
renders
his
passing
homage
to
my
Lady
,
shakes
Sir
Leicester
's
hand
,
and
subsides
into
the
chair
proper
to
him
when
he
has
anything
to
communicate
,
on
the
opposite
side
of
the
Baronet
's
little
newspaper-table
.
Sir
Leicester
is
apprehensive
that
my
Lady
,
not
being
very
well
,
will
take
cold
at
that
open
window
.
My
Lady
is
obliged
to
him
,
but
would
rather
sit
there
,
for
the
air
.
Sir
Leicester
rises
,
adjusts
her
scarf
about
her
,
and
returns
to
his
seat
.
Mr.
Tulkinghorn
in
the
meanwhile
takes
a
pinch
of
snuff
.
“
Now
,
”
says
Sir
Leicester
.
“
How
has
that
contest
gone
?
”
“
Oh
,
hollow
from
the
beginning
.
Not
a
chance
.
They
have
brought
in
both
their
people
.
You
are
beaten
out
of
all
reason
.
Three
to
one
.
”
It
is
a
part
of
Mr.
Tulkinghorn
's
policy
and
mastery
to
have
no
political
opinions
;
indeed
,
no
opinions
.
Therefore
he
says
“
you
”
are
beaten
,
and
not
“
we
.
”
Sir
Leicester
is
majestically
wroth
.
Volumnia
never
heard
of
such
a
thing
.
The
debilitated
cousin
holds
that
it
's
—
sort
of
thing
that
's
sure
tapn
slongs
votes
—
giv'n
—
Mob
.
“
It
's
the
place
you
know
,
”
Mr.
Tulkinghorn
goes
on
to
say
in
the
fast
increasing
darkness
,
when
there
is
silence
again
,
“
where
they
wanted
to
put
up
Mrs.
Rouncewell
's
son
.
”
“
A
proposal
which
,
as
you
correctly
informed
me
at
the
time
,
he
had
the
becoming
taste
and
perception
,
”
observes
Sir
Leicester
,
“
to
decline
.
I
cannot
say
that
I
by
any
means
approve
of
the
sentiments
expressed
by
Mr.
Rouncewell
,
when
he
was
here
for
some
half-hour
,
in
this
room
;
but
there
was
a
sense
of
propriety
in
his
decision
which
I
am
glad
to
acknowledge
.
”
“
Ha
!
”
says
Mr.
Tulkinghorn
.
“
It
did
not
prevent
him
from
being
very
active
in
this
election
,
though
.
”
Sir
Leicester
is
distinctly
heard
to
gasp
before
speaking
.
“
Did
I
understand
you
?
Did
you
say
that
Mr.
Rouncewell
had
been
very
active
in
this
election
?
”
“
Uncommonly
active
,
”
“
Against
—
”
“
O
dear
yes
,
against
you
.
He
is
a
very
good
speaker
.
Plain
and
emphatic
.
He
made
a
damaging
effect
,
and
has
great
influence
.
In
the
business-part
of
the
proceedings
he
carried
all
before
him
.
”
It
is
evident
to
the
whole
company
,
though
nobody
can
see
him
,
that
Sir
Leicester
is
staring
majestically
.
“
And
he
was
much
assisted
,
”
says
Mr.
Tulkinghorn
,
as
a
wind-up
,
“
by
his
son
.
”
“
By
his
son
,
sir
?
”
repeats
Sir
Leicester
,
with
awful
politeness
.
“
By
his
son
.
”
“
The
son
who
wished
to
marry
the
young
woman
in
my
Lady
's
service
?
”
“
That
son
.
He
has
but
one
.
”
“
Then
upon
my
honor
,
”
says
Sir
Leicester
,
after
a
terrific
pause
,
during
which
he
has
been
heard
to
snort
and
felt
to
stare
;
“
then
upon
my
honor
,
upon
my
life
,
upon
my
reputation
and
principles
,
the
floodgates
of
society
are
burst
open
,
and
the
waters
have
—
a
—
obliterated
the
landmarks
of
the
framework
of
the
cohesion
by
which
things
are
held
together
!
”
General
burst
of
cousinly
indignation
.
Volumnia
thinks
it
is
really
high
time
,
you
know
,
for
somebody
in
power
to
step
in
and
do
something
strong
.
Debilitated
cousin
thinks
—
Country
's
going
—
DAYVLE
—
steeplechase
pace
.
“
I
beg
,
”
says
Sir
Leicester
,
in
a
breathless
condition
,
“
that
we
may
not
comment
further
on
this
circumstance
.
Comment
is
superfluous
.
My
Lady
,
let
me
suggest
in
reference
to
that
young
woman
—
”
“
I
have
no
intention
,
”
observes
my
Lady
from
her
window
,
in
a
low
but
decided
tone
,
“
of
parting
with
her
.
”
“
That
was
not
my
meaning
,
”
returns
Sir
Leicester
.
“
I
am
glad
to
hear
you
say
so
.
I
would
suggest
that
as
you
think
her
worthy
of
your
patronage
,
you
should
exert
your
influence
to
keep
her
from
these
dangerous
hands
.
You
might
show
her
what
violence
would
be
done
,
in
such
association
,
to
her
duties
and
principles
;
and
you
might
preserve
her
for
a
better
fate
.
You
might
point
out
to
her
that
she
probably
would
,
in
good
time
,
find
a
husband
at
Chesney
Wold
by
whom
she
would
not
be
—
”
Sir
Leicester
adds
,
after
a
moment
's
consideration
,
“
dragged
from
the
altars
of
her
forefathers
.
”
These
remarks
he
offers
with
his
unvarying
politeness
and
deference
when
he
addresses
himself
to
his
wife
.
She
merely
moves
her
head
in
reply
.
The
moon
is
rising
;
and
where
she
sits
there
is
a
little
stream
of
cold
pale
light
,
in
which
her
head
is
seen
.
“
It
is
worthy
of
remark
,
”
says
Mr.
Tulkinghorn
,
“
however
,
that
these
people
are
,
in
their
way
,
very
proud
.
”
“
Proud
?
”
Sir
Leicester
doubts
his
hearing
.
“
I
should
not
be
surprised
,
if
they
all
voluntarily
abandoned
the
girl
—
yes
,
lover
and
all
—
instead
of
her
abandoning
them
,
supposing
she
remained
at
Chesney
Wold
under
such
circumstances
.
”
“
Well
!
”
says
Sir
Leicester
,
tremulouslessly
,
“
Well
!
You
should
know
,
Mr.
Tulkinghorn
.
You
have
been
among
them
.
”
“
Really
,
Sir
Leicester
,
”
returns
the
lawyer
,
“
I
state
the
fact
.
Why
,
I
could
tell
you
a
story
—
with
Lady
Dedlock
's
permission
.
”
Her
head
concedes
it
,
and
Volumnia
is
enchanted
.
A
story
!
O
he
is
going
to
tell
something
at
last
!
A
ghost
in
it
,
Volumnia
hopes
?
“
No.
Real
flesh
and
blood
.
”
Mr.
Tulkinghorn
stops
for
an
instant
,
and
repeats
,
with
some
little
emphasis
grafted
upon
his
usual
monotony
,
“
Real
flesh
and
blood
,
Miss
Dedlock
.
Sir
Leicester
,
these
particulars
have
only
lately
become
known
to
me
.
They
are
very
brief
.
They
exemplify
what
I
have
said
.
I
suppress
names
for
the
present
.
Lady
Dedlock
will
not
think
me
ill-bred
,
I
hope
?
”
By
the
light
of
the
fire
,
which
is
low
,
he
can
be
seen
looking
towards
the
moonlight
.
By
the
light
of
the
moon
Lady
Dedlock
can
be
seen
,
perfectly
still
.
“
A
townsman
of
this
Mr.
Rouncewell
,
a
man
in
exactly
parallel
circumstances
as
I
am
told
,
had
the
good
fortune
to
have
a
daughter
who
attracted
the
notice
of
a
great
lady
.
I
speak
of
really
a
great
lady
;
not
merely
great
to
him
,
but
married
to
a
gentleman
of
your
condition
,
Sir
Leicester
.
”
Sir
Leicester
condescendingly
says
,
“
Yes
,
Mr.
Tulkinghorn
;
”
implying
that
then
she
must
have
appeared
of
very
considerable
moral
dimensions
indeed
,
in
the
eyes
of
an
ironmaster
.
“
The
lady
was
wealthy
and
beautiful
,
and
had
a
liking
for
the
girl
,
and
treated
her
with
great
kindness
,
and
kept
her
always
near
her
.
Now
this
lady
preserved
a
secret
under
all
her
greatness
,
which
she
had
preserved
for
many
years
.
In
fact
,
she
had
in
early
life
been
engaged
to
marry
a
young
rake
—
he
was
a
captain
in
the
army
—
nothing
connected
with
whom
came
to
any
good
.
She
never
did
marry
him
,
but
she
gave
birth
to
a
child
of
which
he
was
the
father
.
”
By
the
light
of
the
fire
he
can
be
seen
looking
towards
the
moonlight
.
By
the
moonlight
,
Lady
Dedlock
can
be
seen
in
profile
,
perfectly
still
.
“
The
captain
in
the
army
being
dead
,
she
believed
herself
safe
;
but
a
train
of
circumstances
with
which
I
need
not
trouble
you
,
led
to
discovery
.
As
I
received
the
story
,
they
began
in
an
imprudence
on
her
own
part
one
day
,
when
she
was
taken
by
surprise
;
which
shows
how
difficult
it
is
for
the
firmest
of
us
(
she
was
very
firm
)
to
be
always
guarded
.
There
was
great
domestic
trouble
and
amazement
,
you
may
suppose
;
I
leave
you
to
imagine
,
Sir
Leicester
,
the
husband
's
grief
.
But
that
is
not
the
present
point
.
When
Mr.
Rouncewell
's
townsman
heard
of
the
disclosure
,
he
no
more
allowed
the
girl
to
be
patronised
and
honored
,
than
he
would
have
suffered
her
to
be
trodden
underfoot
before
his
eyes
.
Such
was
his
pride
,
that
he
indignantly
took
her
away
,
as
if
from
reproach
and
disgrace
.
He
had
no
sense
of
the
honor
done
him
and
his
daughter
by
the
lady
's
condescension
;
not
the
least
.
He
resented
the
girl
's
position
,
as
if
the
lady
had
been
the
commonest
of
commoners
.
That
is
the
story
.
I
hope
Lady
Dedlock
will
excuse
its
painful
nature
.
”
There
are
various
opinions
on
the
merits
,
more
or
less
conflicting
with
Volumnia
's
.
That
fair
young
creature
cannot
believe
there
ever
was
any
such
lady
,
and
rejects
the
whole
history
on
the
threshold
.
The
majority
incline
to
the
debilitated
cousin
's
sentiment
,
which
is
in
few
words
—
“
no
business
—
Rouncewell
's
fernal
townsman
.
”
Sir
Leicester
generally
refers
back
in
his
mind
to
Wat
Tyler
,
and
arranges
a
sequence
of
events
on
a
plan
of
his
own
.
There
is
not
much
conversation
in
all
,
for
late
hours
have
been
kept
at
Chesney
Wold
since
the
necessary
expenses
elsewhere
began
,
and
this
is
the
first
night
in
many
on
which
the
family
have
been
alone
.
It
is
past
ten
,
when
Sir
Leicester
begs
Mr.
Tulkinghorn
to
ring
for
candles
.
Then
the
stream
of
moonlight
has
swelled
into
a
lake
,
and
then
Lady
Dedlock
for
the
first
time
moves
,
and
rises
,
and
comes
forward
to
a
table
for
a
glass
of
water
.
Winking
cousins
,
bat-like
in
the
candle
glare
,
crowd
round
to
give
it
;
Volumnia
(
always
ready
for
something
better
if
procurable
)
takes
another
,
a
very
mild
sip
of
which
contents
her
;
Lady
Dedlock
,
graceful
,
self-possessed
,
looked
after
by
admiring
eyes
,
passes
away
slowly
down
the
long
perspective
by
the
side
of
that
Nymph
,
not
at
all
improving
her
as
a
question
of
contrast
.
CHAPTER
XLI
.
IN
MR.
TULKINGHORN
'S
ROOM
.
MR.
TULKINGHORN
arrives
in
his
turret-room
,
a
little
breathed
by
the
journey
up
,
though
leisurely
performed
.
There
is
an
expression
on
his
face
as
if
he
had
discharged
his
mind
of
some
grave
matter
,
and
were
,
in
his
close
way
,
satisfied
.
To
say
of
a
man
so
severely
and
strictly
self-repressed
that
he
is
triumphant
,
would
be
to
do
him
as
great
an
injustice
as
to
suppose
him
troubled
with
love
or
sentiment
,
or
any
romantic
weakness
.
He
is
sedately
satisfied
.
Perhaps
there
is
a
rather
increased
sense
of
power
upon
him
,
as
he
loosely
grasps
one
of
his
veinous
wrists
with
his
other
hand
,
and
holding
it
behind
his
back
walks
noiselessly
up
and
down
.
There
is
a
capacious
writing-table
in
the
room
,
on
which
is
a
pretty
large
accumulation
of
papers
.
The
green
lamp
is
lighted
,
his
reading-glasses
lie
upon
the
desk
,
the
easy
chair
is
wheeled
up
to
it
,
and
it
would
seem
as
though
he
had
intended
to
bestow
an
hour
or
so
upon
these
claims
on
his
attention
before
going
to
bed
.
But
he
happens
not
to
be
in
a
business
mind
.
After
a
glance
at
the
documents
awaiting
his
notice
—
with
his
head
bent
low
over
the
table
,
the
old
man
's
sight
for
print
or
writing
being
defective
at
night
—
he
opens
the
french
window
and
steps
out
upon
the
leads
.
There
he
again
walks
slowly
up
and
down
,
in
the
same
attitude
;
subsiding
,
if
a
man
so
cool
may
have
any
need
to
subside
,
from
the
story
he
has
related
down-stairs
.
The
time
was
once
,
when
men
as
knowing
as
Mr.
Tulkinghorn
would
walk
on
turret-tops
in
the
star-light
,
and
look
up
into
the
sky
to
read
their
fortunes
there
.
Hosts
of
stars
are
visible
to-night
,
though
their
brilliancy
is
eclipsed
by
the
splendor
of
the
moon
.
If
he
be
seeking
his
own
star
,
as
he
methodically
turns
and
turns
upon
the
leads
,
it
should
be
but
a
pale
one
to
be
so
rustily
represented
below
.
If
he
be
tracing
out
his
destiny
,
that
may
be
written
in
other
characters
nearer
to
his
hand
.
As
he
paces
the
leads
,
with
his
eyes
most
probably
as
high
above
his
thoughts
as
they
are
high
above
the
earth
,
he
is
suddenly
stopped
in
passing
the
window
by
two
eyes
that
meet
his
own
.
The
ceiling
of
his
room
is
rather
low
;
and
the
upper
part
of
the
door
,
which
is
opposite
the
window
,
is
of
glass
.
There
is
an
inner
baize
door
too
,
but
the
night
being
warm
he
did
not
close
it
when
he
came
up-stairs
.
These
eyes
that
meet
his
own
,
are
looking
in
through
the
glass
from
the
corridor
outside
.
He
knows
them
well
.
The
blood
has
not
flushed
into
his
face
so
suddenly
and
redly
for
many
a
long
year
,
as
when
he
recognises
Lady
Dedlock
.
He
steps
into
the
room
,
and
she
comes
in
too
,
closing
both
the
doors
behind
her
.
There
is
a
wild
disturbance
—
is
it
fear
or
anger
?
—
in
her
eyes
.
In
her
carriage
and
all
else
,
she
looks
as
she
looked
down-stairs
two
hours
ago
.
Is
it
fear
,
or
is
it
anger
,
now
?
He
cannot
be
sure
.
Both
might
be
as
pale
,
both
as
intent
.
“
Lady
Dedlock
?
”
She
does
not
speak
at
first
,
nor
even
when
she
has
slowly
dropped
into
the
easy
chair
by
the
table
.
They
look
at
each
other
,
like
two
pictures
.
“
Why
have
you
told
my
story
to
so
many
persons
?
”
“
Lady
Dedlock
,
it
was
necessary
for
me
to
inform
you
that
I
knew
it
.
”
“
How
long
have
you
known
it
?
”
“
I
have
suspected
it
a
long
while
—
fully
known
it
,
a
little
while
.
”
“
Months
?
”
“
Days
.
”
He
stands
before
her
,
with
one
hand
on
a
chair-back
and
the
other
in
his
old-fashioned
waistcoat
and
shirt-frill
,
exactly
as
he
has
stood
before
her
at
any
time
since
her
marriage
.
The
same
formal
politeness
,
the
same
composed
deference
that
might
as
well
be
defiance
;
the
whole
man
the
same
dark
,
cold
object
,
at
the
same
distance
,
which
nothing
has
ever
diminished
.
“
Is
this
true
concerning
the
poor
girl
?
”
He
slightly
inclines
and
advances
his
head
,
as
not
quite
understanding
the
question
.
“
You
know
what
you
related
.
Is
it
true
?
Do
her
friends
know
my
story
also
?
Is
it
the
town-talk
yet
?
Is
it
chalked
upon
the
walls
and
cried
in
the
streets
?
”
So
!
Anger
,
and
fear
,
and
shame
.
All
three
contending
.
What
power
this
woman
has
,
to
keep
these
raging
passions
down
!
Mr.
Tulkinghorn
's
thoughts
take
such
form
as
he
looks
at
her
,
with
his
ragged
grey
eyebrows
a
hair's-breadth
more
contracted
than
usual
,
under
her
gaze
.
“
No
,
Lady
Dedlock
.
That
was
a
hypothetical
case
,
arising
out
of
Sir
Leicester
's
unconsciously
carrying
the
matter
with
so
high
a
hand
.
But
it
would
be
a
real
case
if
they
knew
—
what
we
know
.
”
“
Then
they
do
not
know
it
yet
?
”
“
No.
”
“
Can
I
save
the
poor
girl
from
injury
before
they
know
it
?
”
“
Really
,
Lady
Dedlock
,
”
Mr.
Tulkinghorn
replies
,
“
I
cannot
give
a
satisfactory
opinion
on
that
point
.
”
And
he
thinks
,
with
the
interest
of
attentive
curiosity
,
as
he
watches
the
struggle
in
her
breast
,
“
The
power
and
force
of
this
woman
are
astonishing
!
”
“
Sir
,
”
she
says
,
for
the
moment
obliged
to
set
her
lips
with
all
the
energy
she
has
,
that
she
may
speak
distinguish
“
I
will
make
it
plainer
.
I
do
not
dispute
your
hypothetical
case
.
I
anticipated
it
,
and
felt
its
truth
as
strongly
as
you
can
do
,
when
I
saw
Mr.
Rouncewell
here
.
I
knew
very
well
that
if
he
could
have
had
the
power
of
seeing
me
as
I
was
,
he
would
consider
the
poor
girl
tarnished
by
having
for
a
moment
been
,
although
most
innocently
,
the
subject
of
my
great
and
distinguished
patronage
.
But
,
I
have
an
interest
in
her
;
or
I
should
rather
say
—
no
longer
belonging
to
this
place
—
I
had
;
and
if
you
can
find
so
much
consideration
for
the
woman
under
your
foot
as
to
remember
that
,
she
will
be
very
sensible
of
your
mercy
.
”
Mr.
Tulkinghorn
,
profoundly
attentive
,
throws
this
off
with
a
shrug
of
self-depreciation
,
and
contracts
his
eyebrows
a
little
more
.
“
You
have
prepared
me
for
my
exposure
,
and
I
thank
you
for
that
too
.
Is
there
anything
that
you
require
of
me
?
Is
there
any
claim
that
I
can
release
,
or
any
charge
or
trouble
that
I
can
spare
my
husband
in
obtaining
his
release
,
by
certifying
to
the
exactness
of
your
discovery
?
I
will
write
anything
,
here
and
now
,
that
you
will
dictate
.
I
am
ready
to
do
it
.
”
And
she
would
do
it
!
thinks
the
lawyer
,
watchful
of
the
firm
hand
with
which
she
takes
the
pen
!
“
I
will
not
trouble
you
,
Lady
Dedlock
.
Pray
spare
yourself
.
”
“
I
have
long
expected
this
,
as
you
know
.
I
neither
wish
to
spare
myself
,
nor
to
be
spared
.
You
can
do
nothing
worse
to
me
than
you
have
done
.
Do
what
remains
,
now
.
”
“
Lady
Dedlock
,
there
is
nothing
to
be
done
.
I
will
take
leave
to
say
a
few
words
,
when
you
have
finished
.
”
Their
need
for
watching
one
another
should
be
over
now
,
but
they
do
it
all
this
time
,
and
the
stars
watch
them
both
through
the
opened
window
.
Away
in
the
moonlight
lie
the
woodland
fields
at
rest
,
and
the
wide
house
is
as
quiet
as
the
narrow
one
.
The
narrow
one
!
Where
are
the
digger
and
the
spade
,
this
peaceful
night
,
destined
to
add
the
last
great
secret
to
the
many
secrets
of
the
Tulkinghorn
existence
?
Is
the
man
born
yet
,
is
the
spade
wrought
yet
?
Curious
questions
to
consider
,
more
curious
perhaps
not
to
consider
,
under
the
watching
stars
upon
a
summer
night
.
“
Of
repentance
or
remorse
,
or
any
feeling
of
mine
,
”
Lady
Dedlock
presently
proceeds
,
“
I
say
not
a
word
.
If
I
were
not
dumb
,
you
would
be
deaf
.
Let
that
go
by
.
It
is
not
for
your
ears
.
”
He
makes
a
feint
of
offering
a
protest
,
but
she
sweeps
it
away
with
her
disdainful
hand
.
“
Of
other
and
very
different
things
I
come
to
speak
to
you
.
My
jewels
are
all
in
their
proper
places
of
keeping
.
They
will
be
found
there
.
So
,
my
dresses
.
So
,
all
the
valuables
I
have
.
Some
ready
money
I
had
with
me
,
please
to
say
,
but
no
large
amount
.
I
did
not
wear
my
own
dress
,
in
order
that
I
might
avoid
observation
.
I
went
,
to
be
henceforward
lost
.
Make
this
known
.
I
leave
no
other
charge
with
you
.
”
“
Excuse
me
,
Lady
Dedlock
,
”
says
Mr.
Tulkinghorn
,
quite
unmoved
.
“
I
am
not
sure
that
I
understand
you
.
You
went
?
—
”
“
To
be
lost
to
all
here
.
I
leave
Chesney
Wold
to-night
.
I
go
this
hour
.
”
Mr.
Tulkinghorn
shakes
his
head
.
She
rises
;
but
he
,
without
removing
hand
from
chair-back
or
from
old-fashioned
waistcoat
and
shirt-frill
,
shakes
his
head
.
“
What
?
Not
go
as
I
have
said
?
”
“
No
,
Lady
Dedlock
,
”
he
very
calmly
replies
.
“
Do
you
know
the
relief
that
my
disappearance
will
be
?
Have
you
forgotten
the
stain
and
blot
upon
this
place
,
and
where
it
is
,
and
who
it
is
?
”
“
No
,
Lady
Dedlock
,
not
by
any
means
.
”
Without
deigning
to
rejoin
,
she
moves
to
the
inner
door
and
has
it
in
her
hand
,
when
he
says
to
her
,
without
himself
stirring
hand
or
foot
,
or
raising
his
voice
:
“
Lady
Dedlock
,
have
the
goodness
to
stop
and
hear
me
,
or
before
you
reach
the
staircase
I
shall
ring
the
alarm-bell
and
rouse
the
house
.
And
then
I
must
speak
out
,
before
every
guest
and
servant
,
every
man
and
woman
,
in
it
.
”
He
has
conquered
her
.
She
falters
,
trembles
,
and
puts
her
hand
confusedly
to
her
head
.
Slight
tokens
these
in
any
one
else
;
but
when
so
practised
an
eye
as
Mr.
Tulkinghorn
's
sees
indecision
for
a
moment
in
such
a
subject
,
he
thoroughly
knows
its
value
.
He
promptly
says
again
,
“
Have
the
goodness
to
hear
me
,
Lady
Dedlock
,
”
and
motions
to
the
chair
from
which
she
has
risen
.
She
hesitates
,
but
he
motions
again
,
and
she
sits
down
.
“
The
relations
between
us
are
of
an
unfortunate
description
,
Lady
Dedlock
;
but
,
as
they
are
not
of
my
making
,
I
will
not
apologise
for
them
.
The
position
I
hold
in
reference
to
Sir
Leicester
is
so
well-known
to
you
,
that
I
can
hardly
imagine
but
that
I
must
long
have
appeared
in
your
eyes
the
natural
person
to
make
this
discovery
.
”
“
Sir
,
”
she
returns
,
without
looking
up
from
the
ground
,
on
which
her
eyes
are
now
fixed
.
“
I
had
better
have
gone
.
It
would
have
been
far
better
not
to
have
detained
me
.
I
have
no
more
to
say
.
”
“
Excuse
me
,
Lady
Dedlock
,
if
I
add
a
little
more
to
hear
.
”
“
I
wish
to
hear
it
at
the
window
,
then
.
I
ca
n't
breathe
where
I
am
.
”
His
jealous
glance
as
she
walks
that
way
,
betrays
an
instant
's
misgiving
that
she
may
have
it
in
her
thoughts
to
leap
over
,
and
dashing
against
ledge
and
cornice
,
strike
her
life
out
upon
the
terrace
below
.
But
,
a
moment
's
observation
of
her
figure
as
she
stands
in
the
window
without
any
support
,
looking
out
at
the
stars
—
not
up
—
gloomily
out
at
those
stars
which
are
low
in
the
heavens
—
reassures
him
.
By
facing
round
as
she
has
moved
,
he
stands
a
little
behind
her
.
“
Lady
Dedlock
,
I
have
not
yet
been
able
to
come
to
a
decision
satisfactory
to
myself
,
on
the
course
before
me
.
I
am
not
clear
what
to
do
,
or
how
to
act
next
.
I
must
request
you
,
in
the
mean
time
,
to
keep
your
secret
as
you
have
kept
it
so
long
,
and
not
to
wonder
that
I
keep
it
too
.
”
He
pauses
,
but
she
makes
no
reply
.
“
Pardon
me
,
Lady
Dedlock
.
This
is
an
important
subject
.
You
are
honoring
me
with
your
attention
?
”
“
I
am
.
”
“
Thank
you
.
I
might
have
known
it
,
from
what
I
have
seen
of
your
strength
of
character
.
I
ought
not
to
have
asked
the
question
,
but
I
have
the
habit
of
making
sure
of
my
ground
,
step
by
step
,
as
I
go
on
.
The
sole
consideration
in
this
unhappy
case
is
Sir
Leicester
.
”
“
Then
why
,
”
she
asks
in
a
low
voice
,
and
without
removing
her
gloomy
look
from
those
distant
stars
,
“
do
you
detain
me
in
his
house
?
”
“
Because
he
is
the
consideration
.
Lady
Dedlock
,
I
have
no
occasion
to
tell
you
that
Sir
Leicester
is
a
very
proud
man
;
that
his
reliance
upon
you
is
implicit
;
that
the
fall
of
that
moon
out
of
the
sky
,
would
not
amaze
him
more
than
your
fall
from
your
high
position
as
his
wife
.
”
She
breathes
quickly
and
heavily
,
but
she
stands
as
unflinchingly
as
ever
he
has
seen
her
in
the
midst
of
her
grandest
company
.
“
I
declare
to
you
,
Lady
Dedlock
,
that
with
anything
short
of
this
case
that
I
have
,
I
would
as
soon
have
hoped
to
root
up
,
by
means
of
my
own
strength
and
my
own
hands
,
the
oldest
tree
on
this
estate
,
as
to
shake
your
hold
upon
Sir
Leicester
,
and
Sir
Leicester
's
trust
and
confidence
in
you
.
And
even
now
,
with
this
case
,
I
hesitate
.
Not
that
he
could
doubt
,
(
that
,
even
with
him
,
is
impossible
)
,
but
that
nothing
can
prepare
him
for
the
blow
.
”
“
Not
my
flight
?
”
she
returned
.
“
Think
of
it
again
.
”
“
Your
flight
,
Lady
Dedlock
,
would
spread
the
whole
truth
,
and
a
hundred
times
the
whole
truth
,
far
and
wide
.
It
would
be
impossible
to
save
the
family
credit
for
a
day
.
It
is
not
to
be
thought
of
.
”
There
is
a
quiet
decision
in
his
reply
,
which
admits
of
no
remonstrance
.
“
When
I
speak
of
Sir
Leicester
being
the
sole
consideration
,
he
and
the
family
credit
are
one
.
Sir
Leicester
and
the
baronetcy
,
Sir
Leicester
and
Chesney
Wold
,
Sir
Leicester
and
his
ancestors
and
his
patrimony
;
”
Mr.
Tulkinghorn
very
dry
here
;
“
are
,
I
need
not
say
to
you
,
Lady
Dedlock
,
inseparable
.
”
“
Go
on
!
”
“
Therefore
,
”
says
Mr.
Tulkinghorn
,
pursuing
his
case
in
his
jog-trot
style
,
“
I
have
much
to
consider
.
This
is
to
be
hushed
up
,
if
it
can
be
.
How
can
it
be
,
if
Sir
Leicester
is
driven
out
of
his
wits
,
or
laid
upon
a
death-bed
?
If
I
inflicted
this
shock
upon
him
to-morrow
morning
,
how
could
the
immediate
change
in
him
be
accounted
for
?
What
could
have
caused
it
?
What
could
have
divided
you
?
Lady
Dedlock
,
the
wall-chalking
and
the
street-crying
would
come
on
directly
;
and
you
are
to
remember
that
it
would
not
affect
you
merely
(
whom
I
cannot
at
all
consider
in
this
business
)
,
but
your
husband
,
Lady
Dedlock
,
your
husband
.
”
He
gets
plainer
as
he
gets
on
,
but
not
an
atom
more
emphatic
or
animated
.
“
There
is
another
point
of
view
,
”
he
continues
,
“
in
which
the
case
presents
itself
.
Sir
Leicester
is
devoted
to
you
almost
to
infatuation
.
He
might
not
be
able
to
overcome
that
infatuation
,
even
knowing
what
we
know
.
I
am
putting
an
extreme
case
,
but
it
might
be
so
.
If
so
,
it
were
better
that
he
knew
nothing
.
Better
for
common
sense
,
better
for
him
,
better
for
me
.
I
must
take
all
this
into
account
,
and
it
combines
to
render
a
decision
very
difficult
.
”
She
stands
looking
out
at
the
same
stars
,
without
a
word
.
They
are
beginning
to
pale
,
and
she
looks
as
if
their
coldness
froze
her
.
“
My
experience
teaches
me
,
”
says
Mr.
Tulkinghorn
,
who
has
by
this
time
got
his
hands
in
his
pockets
,
and
is
going
on
in
his
business
consideration
of
the
matter
,
like
a
machine
.
“
My
experience
teaches
me
,
Lady
Dedlock
,
that
most
of
the
people
I
know
would
do
far
better
to
leave
marriage
alone
.
It
is
at
the
bottom
of
three-fourths
of
their
troubles
.
So
I
thought
when
Sir
Leicester
married
,
and
so
I
always
have
thought
since
.
No
more
about
that
.
I
must
now
be
guided
by
circumstances
.
In
the
meanwhile
I
must
beg
you
to
keep
your
own
counsel
,
and
I
will
keep
mine
.
”
“
I
am
to
drag
my
present
life
on
,
holding
its
pains
at
your
pleasure
,
day
by
day
?
”
she
asks
,
still
looking
at
the
distant
sky
.
“
Yes
,
I
am
afraid
so
,
Lady
Dedlock
.
”
“
It
is
necessary
,
you
think
,
that
I
should
be
so
tied
to
the
stake
?
”
“
I
am
sure
that
what
I
recommend
is
necessary
.
”
“
I
am
to
remain
upon
this
gaudy
platform
,
on
which
my
miserable
deception
has
been
so
long
acted
,
and
it
is
to
fall
beneath
me
when
you
give
the
signal
?
”
she
says
slowly
.
“
Not
without
notice
,
Lady
Dedlock
.
I
shall
take
no
step
without
forewarning
you
.
”
She
asks
all
her
questions
as
if
she
were
repeating
them
from
memory
,
or
calling
them
over
in
her
sleep
.
“
We
are
to
meet
as
usual
?
”
“
Precisely
as
usual
,
if
you
please
.
”
“
And
I
am
to
hide
my
guilt
,
as
I
have
done
so
many
years
?
”
“
As
you
have
done
so
many
years
.
I
should
not
have
made
that
reference
myself
,
Lady
Dedlock
,
but
I
may
now
remind
you
that
your
secret
can
be
no
heavier
to
you
than
it
was
,
and
is
no
worse
and
no
better
than
it
was
.
I
know
it
certainly
,
but
I
believe
we
have
never
wholly
trusted
each
other
.
”
She
stands
absorbed
in
the
same
frozen
way
for
some
little
time
,
before
asking
:
“
Is
there
anything
more
to
be
said
to-night
?
”
“
Why
,
”
Mr.
Tulkinghorn
returns
methodically
,
as
he
softly
rubs
his
hands
,
“
I
should
like
to
be
assured
of
your
acquiescence
in
my
arrangements
,
Lady
Dedlock
.
”
“
You
may
be
assured
of
it
.
”
“
Good
.
And
I
would
wish
in
conclusion
to
remind
you
,
as
a
business
precaution
,
in
case
it
should
be
necessary
to
recal
the
fact
in
any
communication
with
Sir
Leicester
,
that
throughout
our
interview
I
have
expressly
stated
my
sole
consideration
to
be
Sir
Leicester
's
feelings
and
honor
,
and
the
family
reputation
.
I
should
have
been
happy
to
have
made
Lady
Dedlock
a
prominent
consideration
too
,
if
the
case
had
admitted
of
it
;
but
unfortunately
it
does
not
.
”
“
I
can
attest
your
fidelity
,
sir
.
”
Both
before
and
after
saying
it
,
she
remains
absorbed
;
but
at
length
moves
,
and
turns
,
unshaken
in
her
natural
and
acquired
presence
,
towards
the
door
.
Mr.
Tulkinghorn
opens
both
the
doors
exactly
as
he
would
have
done
yesterday
,
or
as
he
would
have
done
ten
years
ago
,
and
makes
his
old-fashioned
bow
as
she
passes
out
.
It
is
not
an
ordinary
look
that
he
receives
from
the
handsome
face
as
it
goes
into
the
darkness
,
and
it
is
not
an
ordinary
movement
,
though
a
very
slight
one
,
that
acknowledges
his
courtesy
.
But
,
as
he
reflects
when
he
is
left
alone
,
the
woman
has
been
putting
no
common
constraint
upon
herself
.
He
would
know
it
all
