It was too late to get an answer to any telegrams to England--he must wait until the morning.

Mrs.Porrit would know where Cheiron's next address would be.

Yes, he could hope to come up with the wanderers perhaps not later than the day after tomorrow.
But when Arabella entered her employer's sitting-room after wishing him good-by, she found Mrs.Cricklander in violent hysterics, and she had to have the doctor and a sleeping draught before she could be calmed.
The hatefulness, the impossible arrogance and insolence of the man, she had thought! and the humiliation to herself of knowing full well that, instead of making this dismissal a scene of subtle superlative cleverness, so that through all his torture he would be obliged to admire and respect her skill--she had let her temper get the better of her, and had shown him a side of herself that, she was well aware, was most unrefined, so that he had been able to leave her, not as a humbled, beaten cur, as she had intended, but feeling what she knew to be unfeigned contempt.
No wonder she had hysterics! It was galling beyond compare, and not all Mr.Hanbury-Green's devotion or flattery next day could heal the bitter hurt.
"Oh, how I will help you, Percy!" she said, "to pull them all down from their pedestals, and drag them to the guillotine!" And Mr.Hanbury-Green had laughed, and said it gratified him greatly to feel her sympathy and cooeperation would be with him, but he feared they would never have the humorous pleasure of getting as far as that! And, it being a Sunday, Arabella Clinker wrote to her mother to apprise her of these events.
The engagement is over [Mrs.Clinker was told]--the advent of Mr.
Hanbury-Green (a very unpleasant personality, afraid of being polite to me in case I should fancy myself his equal) seemed to clinch matters in M.E.'s mind.

I suppose he was able to give her some definite assurance of the future of the Government.

In any case, I could see, when they returned from their excursion in the gondola yesterday, that things were upon a very familiar footing between them.