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He was at the foot of the stairs, and, waiting for her to get down, watched her hand on the banister. The wood was dark and the hand was white and slender. Then he held out a big, checked apron. She walked into it and looked over her shoulder while he tied the strings behind. It takes time to set a table when neither is just certain where things are to be found.
A slight tendency to dizziness obliged her, after a provisional clutch at the chimney against which they had been leaning, to follow him down more cautiously; and when she had reached the attic landing she paused again for a less definite reason, leaning over the oak banister to strain her eyes through the silence of the brown, sun-flecked depths below.
I never liked him." Katherine answered: "They've all come because I thought I saw you dead, lying in the old room." "We all saw," Bobby cried angrily, and Paredes nodded. Blackburn shrank away from them. The three men descended the stairs. Half way down they stopped. "Who is that?" Robinson cried. Graham's face whitened. He braced himself against the banister. "Next time, Mr.
Beads of perspiration covered her face, and her hands were burning. Anyone might have taken her for a drunken woman. She rapidly ascended the staircase of the hotel, and on reaching the sixth floor, out of breath, and with wandering eyes, she perceived Laurent, who was leaning over the banister awaiting her.
Sahwah rushed up from the basement; Veronica sped swiftly down from upstairs, followed in a moment by Migwan; Hinpoha hastily snatched the coffee pot off the fire and ran in from the kitchen; Gladys hastened from the pantry; the two boys jumped in from the porch, and at the same moment Nyoda called over the banister and asked if someone would answer the telephone.
Above the wind and the rain, a curious sound had come from below as if someone had stumbled against something. "Who is that?" Sheeley demanded sharply, leaning over the banister and peering down into the gloom. No answer came, but a draught of wind blew in from somewhere, swaying the gas-jet. "Oh! it's a window that's left open," said Sheeley. "That fool bartender!
Irons, Madam, will you do us the favour to make a bowl of punch as soon as may be? cried Devereux, over the banister. 'Come, Toole, said Devereux, 'I'm very dismal. Losses and crosses, and deuce knows what. Whistle or talk, what you please, I'll listen; tell me anything; stories of horses, dogs, dice, snuff, women, cocks, parsons, wine what you will. Come, how's Sturk?
The afternoon of that day turned out not only foggy but wet. A drizzling rain shrouded the landscape, and very few girls from St. Benet's were venturing abroad. At half-past two Nancy Banister came hastily into Priscilla's room. "Maggie and I are going down to the library," she said, "to have a cozy read by the fire; we want you to come with us. Why, surely you are never going out, Miss Peel?"
"Haven't you been on a funicular before the real thing? What's the use of bragging about the dangers you've been through if you can't face them a second time? Now, then, are you ready, ma'am?" "Oh, no; not yet! Oh, but we sitted the other way in the real railway!" tearfully remonstrated the passenger, who had been settled by the guard on the banister face downwards. "Can't help that, ma'am.
Miss Banister was so sensible and so little given to undue alarms that her words had effect, and a little rumor spread in the college that Miss Oliphant could not take her part in the important rehearsals which were to take place that evening.
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