’
‘Pah! Am I a fool? Have you not this moment past said how he did not?’
Agitation sent her to her feet. A militiaman came
belting down the stairs, another leapt from outside the front door, and a third,
stalwart and stolid, came in through the door that led to the rooms to the front of
the house. It is at the lodge
that we stay. Looking for something, or
someone, probably. Her family are solid West End people, Kensington people. “Do you mean, aunt,” she asked, “that my father thought I had gone off—with
some man?”
“What else COULD he think? Would any one DREAM you would be so mad
as to go off alone?”
“After—after what had happened the night before?”
“Oh, why raise up old scores? If you could see him this morning, his poor face
as white as a sheet and all cut about with shaving! He was for coming up by the
very first train and looking for you, but I said to him, ‘Wait for the letters,’ and
there, sure enough, was yours. ”
Her breath left her for a moment. ”
Annabel rose slowly to her feet, walked to the door as though to see that it was
shut, and came back with slow lagging footsteps. "
And he hastily related the occurrences in Jonathan Wild's house. A time may come when this little chap will need my aid, and,
depend upon it, he shall never want a friend in Owen Wood. "
"Mother!" cried Jack, in a broken voice. I’ve accustomed myself to think of you—
as if you were like every other girl who works at the schools—as something
quite outside these possibilities. “When did you get home last night, Lucy?” Cathy
interrogated through a yawn.
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