"The brougham at once, for Miss Boyce. Will you have a maid to go with you?" he asked, motioning the servant to stay till Miss Boyce had given her answer.
"No, thank you. I must go and put on my things. Will you explain to Miss
Raeburn?"
The footman opened the door for her. She went.
CHAPTER XIV.
"But this is unbearable!" said Aldous. "Do you mean to say that she is at home and that she will not see me?"
Mrs. Boyce's self-possession was shaken for once by the flushed humiliation of the man before her.
"I am afraid it is so," she said hurriedly. "I remonstrated with Marcella, but I could do nothing. I think, if you are wise, you will not for the present attempt to see her."
Aldous sat down, with his hat in his hand, staring at the floor. After a few moments' silence he looked up again.
"And she gave you no message for me?"
"No," said Mrs. Boyce, reluctantly. "Only that she could not bear to see anybody from the Court, even you, while this matter was still undecided."