She had found that proof. But the stone was slippery; and the tide, which here began to feel the influence of the fall, was running with frightful velocity. How would it serve Nicholas to keep the truth from his daughter? A tiny thread of disquiet troubled him. “To be frank with you, Lady Lescelles, when your brother asked me the other day to be his wife I was under a false impression as regards his relations—with some other person. ‘Here, miss,’ came faintly from somewhere close at hand. Had to. Of course, this does not apply to uninteresting old maids," Prudence modified with a dry little smile. “Don’t you think I ought to?” she asked, very submissively. “If only I could afford another!” she thought regretfully. Was it that the struggle of things to survive produced as a sort of necessary byproduct these intense preferences and appreciations, or was it that some mystical outer thing, some great force, drove life beautyward, even in spite of expediency, regardless of survival value and all the manifest discretions of life? She went to Capes with that riddle and put it to him very carefully and clearly, and he talked well—he always talked at some length when she took a difficulty to him—and sent her to a various literature upon the markings of butterflies, the incomprehensible elaboration and splendor of birds of Paradise and hummingbirds’ plumes, the patterning of tigers, and a leopard’s spots.
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