"All being wasted?"
"Yes, Blent and all of it. He can't have it; and as things are now she can't enjoy it."
"Very perverse, very perverse, certainly," murmured
Southend, frowning—although he was rather amused too.
"With an obvious solution," said Lady Evenswood, "if only we lived in the realms of romance."
"I have suggested a magician," put in Southend. "Though he doesn't look much like one," he added with a laugh.
Mina did not understand his remark, but she caught Lady Evenswood's meaning.
"Yes," she said, "but Harry wouldn't do that either."
"He doesn't like his cousin?"
"Yes, I think so." She smiled as she added, "And even if he didn't that mightn't matter."