'
'It's awful to know that this dreadful danger hangs over her, and to be
able to do nothing.'
'We can only wait,' said Dr Porhoet.
'And if we wait too long, we may be faced by a terrible catastrophe.'
'Fortunately we live in a civilized age. Haddo has a great care of his
neck. I hope we are frightened unduly.'
It seemed to Susie that the chief thing was to distract Arthur, and she
turned over in her mind some means of directing his attention to other
matters.
'I was thinking of going down to Chartres for two days with Mrs
Bloomfield,' she said. 'Won't you come with me? It is the most lovely
cathedral in the world, and I think you will find it restful to wander
about it for a little while. You can do no good, here or in London.
Perhaps when you are calm, you will be able to think of something
practical.'
Dr Porhoet saw what her plan was, and joined his entreaties to hers that
Arthur should spend a day or two in a place that had no associations for
him. Arthur was too exhausted to argue, and from sheer weariness
consented.
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