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Long-continued anxiety, I suppose, does tell on one in time. Anyhow, he said that I looked worried and run-down. I AM worried. Let us both try for each other's sakes, or even if only for Alice's, to to do all we can. I must not harass you; but is there any do you see the slightest change of any kind? 'You always look pretty, Sheila; to-night you look prettier: THAT is the only change, I think.
Yet, hang it, after all, I had best take it to Mark Everard and ask his advice I hold him now to be your learned counsellor in law where Mistress Alice's affairs are concerned, and my learned Doctor, who shall be nameless, for such as concern Church and State and Sir Henry Lee.
Dicky said his was simply beastly, and Alice said Noel could taste next if he liked. Noel said it was the golden wine of the gods, but he had to put his handkerchief up to his mouth all the same, and I saw the face he made. Then H. O. had his, and he spat it out in the fire, which was very rude and nasty, and we told him so. Then it was Alice's turn.
Lee turned and said: "Here is the little stranger I have brought with me." "Hello," said Peggy, smiling. Alice smiled, too, but hung back a little, and Billy swept a critical glance over Keineth's city-clad little figure. Mr. Lee, holding Alice's hand in his, was walking toward an automobile in which sat the eldest daughter. "I'm awfully glad you came," began Peggy as the children followed.
Up through it she saw the moon, whose bright face looked sleepy too, disturbed only by the little ripples of the rain from the tall flowers on the edges of the pool. She fell fast asleep, and all night dreamed about home. Richard which is name enough for a fairy story was the son of a widow in Alice's village.
Whatever it was, it had nothing to do with him. He saw that Alice's eyes faced him now with the light, unseeing look of indifference, and that they turned every second toward the wall at the bottom of the garden. She was listening to something. He was then aware of footsteps on the road.
Presently they passed by Westmoreland, and from Alice's window a light shone far out into the golden tinged leaves of the beeches near. Travis glanced up at it. Then at the pretty mill-girl by his side: "A star and a satellite!" he smiled to himself. It was growing late when the old preacher left Westmoreland and rode leisurely back toward the cabin on Sand Mountain.
Philip never noticed that Alice's face was flushed and that her voice was unsteady; he only thought of the delicious words he had heard. And the poor girl, loyal to Ruth, loyal to Philip, went straight to her room, locked the door, threw herself on the bed and sobbed as if her heart world break. And then she prayed that her Father in Heaven would give her strength.
The paternal purse was closed, and perhaps not too early, for the improvidence of the tea-blender and Alice's fecundity were a gulf whose depth no munificence could have plumbed. Again John Stanway sympathised with the now enfeebled old man. John advised him to retire, and Twemlow decided to do so, receiving one-third of the net profits of the partnership business during life.
And Alice, of course, she would be happy; for her's is one of those trusting natures which finds first where her duty points and then makes her heart follow." But Mrs. Westmore wisely kept silent. She did not think aloud. She knew too well that Alice's sympathetic, unselfish, obedient spirit was thinking it over.
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