She is married to
Anthony Palliser."
"Then you are free?" Jane murmured, drawing a little away. "Not in the
least," he replied. "I am engaged to marry you."
At luncheon, with Parkins in attendance, it became possible for them to
converse coherently.
"When I found you at home in the middle of the morning," he said, "I was
afraid that you were Ill."
"I haven't been well," she admitted. "I rode some distance yesterday
and it fatigued me. Somehow or other, I think I have had the feeling,
the last few weeks, that my work here is over. All my farms are sold.
I have really now no means of occupying my time."
"It is fortunate," he told her, with a smile, "that I am able to point
out to you a new sphere of usefulness."
She made a little grimace at him behind Parkins' august back.
"Tell me," she asked, "how did you ever make your peace with the trades
unions after that terrible article of yours?"
"Because," he replied, "except for Miller, their late chief, there are a
great many highly intelligent men connected with the administration of
the trades unions.
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