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But for all his two-edged comments, let Miss Timms-Kelly but open her mouth to sing, and Mahony was hopelessly her slave. His natural instinct for music had outlived even the long years of starvation in this country, where neither taste nor performance was worth a straw. Under the present stimulus, his dormant feelings awoke to new life: when the great voice rang forth he would sit rapt . . . absorbed. And where others, but faintly responsive to the influence, listened with only half an ear, the while they followed their own trains of thought, musing, gently titillated: How fine the moon to-night! or I shall certainly succeed, if I carry through that deal, or Perhaps after all Julia will hear my suit, he surrendered thought for emotion, and climbed the ladder of sound to a world built wholly of sound, where he moved light-footedly and at ease.
She rose and leaned over him. What is it, John? Do you want anything?
My dear, I have not a heart of STONE like SOME people I could mention! I can stand out no longer against his prayers and persuasions. Year after year, year after year not MANY women, Mary, can boast of having inspired such devotion. He worships the very ground I tread and has done ever since those early days . . . though I was then little more than a child. Of course, I am aware he is not my equal . . .
I think youre a very lucky woman, Tilly, to get your hearts wish like this. I do hope it will bring you every happiness.
He could see these simple souls thought he took his windfall very coolly. Well! . . . in a way he did. Just for the moment he had been carried off his feet as indeed who could fail to be, when by a single lucky chance, one spin of fates wheel, all that had become his which half a lifetimes toil had failed to give him? Yet ingrained in him was so lively a relish, so poignant a need for money and the ease of mind money would bring, that the stilling of the want had something almost natural about it resembled the payment of an overdue debt. Yes, affluence would fit him like a second skin. The beggardom of early days, the push and scramble for an income of later life these had been the travesty.
Jealous? Of his own sisters? Oh, Richard! . . . I dont think that augurs very well for him. And surely he cant learn too soon that its for him to give way to them as little girls?