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Suppose we get married again by somebody or other, and start right off. You'd like that, wouldn't you going South?" "Yes," said Lulu only. "It's July," said Ina, with her sense of fitness, but no one heard. It was arranged that their trunks should follow them Ina would see to that, though she was scandalised that they were not first to return to Warbleton for the blessing of Mrs. Bett.
It was an amusing day the jockeys, horses, etc., very different to our poor races at home the betting awful the richest noblemen here mix with the jox, and bett all round. Cambridge pleased me: especially King's College Chapel, of a rich but elegant Gothick. "I have been out into the world, and am made member of the Club at White's, where I meet gentlemen of the first fashion.
As they passed through the hall, Mrs. Bett was going up the stairs to bed when she mounted stairs she stooped her shoulders, bunched her extremities, and bent her head. Lulu looked after her, as if she were half minded to claim the protection so long lost. Dwight lighted the gas. "Better turn down the gas jest a little," said he, tirelessly. Lulu handed him the two letters.
"Tell her," cried Dwight, "tell her she's my best girl." Grandma Gates was a rheumatic cripple who lived next door, and whenever the Deacons or Mrs. Bett were angry or hurt or wished to escape the house for some reason, they stalked over to Grandma Gates in lieu of, say, slamming a door. These visits radiated an almost daily friendliness which lifted and tempered the old invalid's lot and life.
Bett was incalculably distant. "You sure?" Lulu said low to Ninian. For the first time, something in her exceeding isolation really touched him. "Say," he said, "you come on with me. We'll have it done over again somewhere, if you say so." "Oh," said Lulu, "if I thought " He leaned and patted her hand. "Good girl," he said.
Wouldn't that be better?" She put it to her sister fairly: Now, no matter what Dwight's way was, wouldn't that be better? "Mother!" said Lulu. She looked irresolutely toward her mother. But Mrs. Bett was eating cardamom seeds with exceeding gusto, and Lulu looked away. Caught by the gesture, Mrs. Bett voiced her grievance. "Lulie," she said, "Set down. Take off your hat, why don't you?"
"Either lay still or get up and set up," Mrs. Bett directed her at length. When, on a warm evening a fortnight later, Lulu descended the stairs dressed for her incredible trip to the city, she wore the white waist which she had often thought they would "use" for her if she died.
It's a game where only 2 plays, and where, in coarse, when there's only 3, one looks on. Fust, they playd crown pints, and a pound the bett. Dawkins had won 2 pounds; Mr. Blewitt 30 shillings; the Honrabble Mr. Deuceace having lost 3L. l0s. After the devvle and the shampang the play was a little higher. Now it was pound pints, and five pound the bet.
Bett now said positively. "Of course it's a good dress. Lulie wore it on the street of course she did. She was gone a long time. I made me a cup o' tea, and then she hadn't come." "Well," said Ina, "I never heard anything like this before. Where were you both?" One would say that Ina had entered into the family and been born again, identified with each one. Nothing escaped her.
Cornish paid very little attention to her. To Lulu he said kindly, "Don't you play, Miss ?" He had not caught her name no stranger ever did catch it. But Dwight now supplied it: "Miss Lulu Bett," he explained with loud emphasis, and Lulu burned her slow red.
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