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"I think her husband gave her that, and no one else should ever wear it," said Hannah, and Frieda agreed. By the time they had finished dressing, they were flushed and rosy. They stole out into the hall and peered over the banisters to see if the caller showed signs of departure. Miss Lyndesay was just closing the door upon her.
Fell a silence, broken presently by Cappy's: "Huh! Ahem! Harump!" Then: "When I came in from my club last night, Matt, I believe Florry had a caller." "Yes, sir," said Matt; "I was there." "Huh! I got a squint at you. Am I mistaken in assuming that you were wearing a dress suit?" "No, sir." "Whadja mean by wasting your savings on a dress suit?" Cappy exploded.
If it was a caller, above all a female caller, it was my privilege to prevaricate, remarking innocently that 'Papa is out! Into a paradise so carefully guarded, I know not how that serpent Miss Wilkes could penetrate, but there she was. She 'broke bread' with the Brethren at the adjacent town, from which she carried on strategical movements, which were, up to a certain point, highly successful.
Besides, certain words of his caller concerning Saint-Prosper had stimulated his curiosity, and, in casting about for a way to confirm his suspicions, he had suddenly determined in what wise to proceed.
Ryder gave his caller a look in which admiration was mingled with astonishment. "You are right again," he said. "The idiot does love the girl." "Bless his heart," said Shirley to herself. Aloud she said: "I hope they'll both outwit you." Ryder laughed in spite of himself. This young woman certainly interested him more than any other he had ever known.
"I have come over to take you a little spin, if you'll go." Miss Stevens gazed at the caller quizzically, and laughed outright. "This is so sudden," she murmured. The caller himself grinned. "Does seem so, if you stop to think of it," he admitted. "Rather like dropping out of the clouds. But the auto is here, and I can testify that it's a smooth-running machine. Will you go?"
Monday morning Tom buckled down seriously to the job of designing an undetectable sub. His drawing board was littered with sketches and diagrams when the phone rang, breaking in on his thoughts. Tom answered it with a scowl of impatience. The caller was Lester Morris. "Could you meet me at the yacht club to talk over the dance program?" Morris asked. Tom hesitated.
With a simple "good-by" to her two friends but without even a glance toward their caller, she went back up the canyon, in the direction from which she had come. When the girl had disappeared among the trees, James Rutlidge said, with his meaning smile, "Really, I owe you an apology for dropping in so unexpectedly. Conrad Lagrange interrupted him, curtly. "No apology is due, sir."
In a certain way she saw the benefit of that quite as much as Alice Nevins though she did not esteem it the chief good. Major Crawford came in from his walk just at dusk. "Letters!" holding it up. "A thick packet one for each of us, I think." Zaidee had been waiting for Aunt Kate to come up stairs, as the last caller had gone. She was lonely after this long communing with herself.
Mademoiselle should be informed at once, if she were at home, but, in fact, it was possible He hesitated, and Virginia saw well that he prepared a way of escape for his young mistress in case she wished to avoid the unexpected caller. "Pray tell mademoiselle that that " Virginia began. She had meant to finish by saying that her business was urgent.
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