How beautiful she was in spite of the brown linen
and the sleeve puffs which had so annoyed Neil, and while watching her
Jack felt his heart thrill with a strange feeling he had never
experienced before in all his intercourse with women, and found himself
mentally subtracting fifteen from thirty, and feeling rather appalled at
the result.
After they had been in the park ten minutes or more and were nearing a
curve, he saw a sudden flush in Bessie's face and a gleam of triumph in
her blue eyes as she looked ahead of her. Neil was coming from the
opposite direction, he was sure, and in a moment the McPherson turn-out
appeared, with Neil sitting as Jack sat, his back to the horses and his
mother and Blanche opposite. The latter saw Bessie first, and giving her
a haughty stare, spoke quickly to Lady Jane, whose stare was even more
haughty and supercilious. Neither bowed even to Jack, but Neil lifted
his hat with such a look of undisguised astonishment and disapproval on
his face that Jack laughed merrily, for he understood perfectly how
chagrined Neil was to see him there with Bessie.
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