‘It is indeed generous of you to suggest it.’ She looked thoughtfully at him; he appeared to strike her in a new light. ‘You really recommend it?’ The fairness which had prompted his words seemed to incline her still more than before to resign herself entirely to him in the matter.
‘I do,’ said Somerset deliberately.
‘I will think of it, since you wish it. And now, what general idea have you of the plan to adopt? I do not positively agree to your suggestion as yet, so I may perhaps ask the question.’
Somerset, being by this time familiar with the general plan of the castle, took out his pencil and made a rough sketch. While he was doing it she rose, and coming to the back of his chair, bent over him in silence.
‘Ah, I begin to see your conception,’ she murmured; and the breath of her words fanned his ear. He finished the sketch, and held it up to her, saying—
‘I would suggest that you walk over the building with Mr. Havill and myself, and detail your ideas to us on each portion.’
‘Is it necessary?’
‘Clients mostly do it.’
‘I will, then. But it is too late for me this evening. Please meet me to-morrow at ten.’
X.