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An elderly academic becomes consumed by a long-sought discovery and confides his feverish convictions to a younger former pupil, revealing a close mentor–protégé bond. The opening scenes show the older man's meticulous experiments with an exotic anesthetic and his confidence that the finding will shake the scientific world. The narrative traces the moral and emotional consequences of single-minded ambition, the strain it places on personal relationships, and the tension between sober doubt and visionary pride. Domestic settings and intense conversations drive the plot while themes of obsession, reputation, and the risks of experimental zeal unfold.

CHAPTER XX.

‘Fear oftentimes restraineth words,
But makes not thoughts to cease.’

The weather since the beginning of the summer has been exceptionally warm, and to-day has outdone itself.

Here in the Cottage garden, surrounded by its ivied walls, the heat is excessive, and there is a certain languor in the lithe figure of the girl as she comes forward, the dog beside her, to greet Wyndham, that meets his eye. Perhaps nervousness has conduced to the pallor that is whitening her lips and brow, and is making even more striking the darkness of her appealing eyes. There is something about her so full of grief suppressed that he hastens to allay it.

‘I have come, you see,’ says he—he holds out his hand, and she lays hers in it; he holds it a moment—‘to speak about our rent.’ He smiles at her. The smile, to tell the truth, is a little grim, and hardly reassures her. ‘I have come to the conclusion that, as you wish to become my tenant, you must pay me a huge rent.’

‘Ah! and I have been thinking,’ says she very sadly, with the mournful air of one who is giving up all that is worth having in this world, ‘that I shall not be your tenant at all, and shall never pay you any rent.’

‘Do you mean to say,’ says Wyndham, reading her like a book, but humouring her mood, ‘that you’ve found another house more suited to you?’

‘Oh no, it isn’t that. There is no house I shall ever like so well as this.’

‘Then, let me tell you beforehand that I shall charge you a very handsome rent,’ persists Wyndham, trying to be genial. He smiles at her, but the smile is a dismal failure.

‘I can’t accept your offer—I can’t indeed,’ says the girl, who, in spite of her protests, has brightened considerably beneath his apparent determination to let the Cottage to her. ‘This is your own house. Your mother gave it to you. Mrs. Denis has told me all about it, and if you give it to me you will never come here again.’

‘I shall indeed—to collect my rent,’ says Wyndham, a little touched by her evident earnestness, and assuming a more natural air of lightness.

‘Ah, that,’ says she. She pauses a moment, and then: ‘If’—timidly—‘you would promise to come here sometimes to see your dog and the flowers, I might think of it.... I could keep out of your way when you came. I could sit in my own room, and you could——’

‘What a cheerful prospect for you!’ says he. ‘I’m not a very agreeable fellow, I know, when all is told; but I believe I am so far on the road to respectability as to be incapable of enjoying myself at the expense of another fellow-creature’s comfort. Fancy my taking the joys of the country with the knowledge that you were stifling in some cellar downstairs with a view to saving me from the annoyance of your presence!’

‘It wouldn’t be a cellar, and it isn’t downstairs,’ says the girl anxiously. ‘It is a pretty little room upstairs.’

‘It’s all the same,’ says Wyndham. ‘The prettiest little room in the world is a bore if one is imprisoned in it.’

Silence follows upon this. Wyndham, going forward, stoops down to a bed of seedlings that he had ordered to be planted a month ago. They are in a very promising condition, and the regret he feels for this little home of his that is slipping through his fingers increases. And yet to thrust her out—he knows quite well now that he will never do that.

‘Mr. Wyndham,’ says the girl—she is at his elbow now—‘don’t be so sorry about it; I shall go—to-morrow, if possible.’

He is not prepared for this, nor for the soft breathings of her voice in his ear. He turns abruptly.

‘All that is arranged,’ says he peremptorily. ‘You cannot go; you have nowhere to go to, as’—pointedly—‘you tell me. In the meantime, it is absolutely necessary that you should have someone to live with you.’

‘There is Mrs. Denis,’ says she nervously.

‘Not good enough for an heiress like you,’ returns he, smiling. Now that he has finally, most unwillingly and most ungraciously, given in to the fact that she is to be his tenant, he feels more kindly towards her, and more human. ‘You will want a lady companion to read with you—you say you wish to go on with your studies—and to go out with you.’

‘Go out!’ She regards him with quick horror. ‘I shall never go out of this—never!’ cries she.

The extraordinary passion of her manner checks him. She has sunk upon a garden-chair, as if incapable of supporting herself any longer; and from this she looks up at him with a sad and frightened face.

‘I will leave,’ says she at last. It is a most mournful surrender of hope, and all things that make life still dear to her.

‘There is no necessity for that,’ says Wyndham hurriedly. ‘If I knew more—if I knew how to help you—but’—breaking off abruptly—‘you yourself have decided against that. You must pardon me. You have already told me that you do not wish to tell me of yourself, your past——’

She makes a little gesture with her hand. Wyndham, standing still upon the gravelled path, looks at her.

‘I have been thinking about that,’ says she, ‘and’—with growing agitation—‘it has seemed very ungrateful of me to distrust you—you who have done so much for me, who are now giving up your lovely home for me. Mr. Wyndham’—rising and coming towards him—‘I have made up my mind; I will tell you all.’

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ANTONINA. With a Frontispiece by Sir John Gilbert, R.A.
BASIL. Illustrated by Sir John Gilbert, R.A., and J. Mahoney.
HIDE AND SEEK. Illustrated by Sir John Gilbert, R.A., and J. Mahoney.
AFTER DARK. Illustrations by A. B. Houghton.
THE TWO DESTINIES.
THE DEAD SECRET. With a Frontispiece by Sir John Gilbert, R.A.
QUEEN OF HEARTS. With a Frontispiece by Sir John Gilbert, R.A.
THE WOMAN IN WHITE. With Illusts. by Sir J. Gilbert, R.A., and F. A. Fraser.
NO NAME. With Illustrations by Sir J. E. Millais, R.A., and A. W. Cooper.
MY MISCELLANIES. With a Steel-plate Portrait of Wilkie Collins.
ARMADALE. With Illustrations by G. H. Thomas.
THE MOONSTONE. With Illustrations by G. Du Maurier and F. A. Fraser.
MAN AND WIFE. With Illustrations by William Small.
POOR MISS FINCH. Illustrated by G. Du Maurier and Edward Hughes.
MISS OR MRS.? With Illusts. by S. L. Fildes, R.A., and Henry Woods, A.R.A.
THE NEW MAGDALEN. Illustrated by G. Du Maurier and C. S. Reinhardt.
THE FROZEN DEEP. Illustrated by G. Du Maurier and J. Mahoney.
THE LAW AND THE LADY. Illusts. by S. L. Fildes, R.A., and Sydney Hall.
THE HAUNTED HOTEL. Illustrated by Arthur Hopkins.
THE FALLEN LEAVES.
JEZEBEL’S DAUGHTER.
THE BLACK ROBE.
HEART AND SCIENCE.
“I SAY NO.”
A ROGUE’S LIFE.
THE EVIL GENIUS.
LITTLE NOVELS.
THE LEGACY OF CAIN.
BLIND LOVE. With Preface by Sir Walter Besant. Illusts. by A. Forestier.